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Presidents and prime ministers who have appeared on the animated comedy show - some knowingly, some not so muchGeorge H W Bush (1990)In a swipe at the TV show, the then president said in a re-election campaign speech that "We (Read More)
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Jeffrey Tesler, alleged to have been London-based 'bagman' for US construction firms, fights extradition attemptA British high street solicitor laundered "huge sums of money" in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland a (Read More)
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Nestlé joins Kraft, Hershey and Ferrero in a bittersweet battle over the chocolate companyRenewed talk of a bid battle for Cadbury today sent shares in the Birmingham-based confectionery group inching up to their highest leve (Read More)
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Police have warned gang members that standing by whilst a crime is being committed is just as bad as carrying out the crime. (Read More)
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• Messi unlikely to start die to groin injury• Mourinho wants to beat Barcelona with "all his soul"It was the last thing Barcelona wanted to see. Two players have gone down with swine flu, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Leo Messi are (Read More)
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Caroline Davies For parents too stretched to make sure their offspring are perfectly turned out at all times, it may just be the scientific cover they've been waiting for.They will now be able to answer the disapproving tuts (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
If Labour cannot win the coming election with Gordon Brown, it certainly can't win it without him (Here's the last hard choice for Labour: leader or country, 14 November). Imagine the bickering and infighting among his potent (Read More)
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Sa'ada fighting risks turning into proxy war between Sunni powerhouse of Saudi Arabia and Shia rival, IranSaudi bombing raids on rebel positions inside Yemen represent a significant escalation of a local conflict that has bec (Read More)
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To my London friends it is a land of beheadings and bombings, but I know it as a place where hope and tolerance can flourishMy wife Zahra and I recently decided to move back to Pakistan. Many friends in London seem puzzled by (Read More)
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• Dead electrician's relatives agree to end legal action• Scotland Yard pay legal fees and repeat apologyThe four-year battle for justice by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes finally ended today after they reached a legal (Read More)
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British police say they've referred the cases of four of the country's politicians to prosecutors after an investigation into lavish expenses. (Read More)
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British police have agreed to a compensation deal with the family of an innocent Brazilian who was shot dead after being mistaken for a suicide bomber. (Read More)
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A Labour councillor, magistrate and union representativeRosemary Maher, who has died at the age of 81, served as a Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets, east London, from 1974 to 1978. She held various offices within the party, (Read More)
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Wall Street will never be fair while industry lobbyists wander the halls of Congress, sucking the life out of financial reformThere are more than 15 million people unemployed and almost 2 million people set to lose their home (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Fiorentina without Adrian Mutu and Stevan Jovetic• Lyon can secure top spot with a home winLiverpool's Champions League fate may be out of their hands but that is not to say it has already been decided. Fiorentina would nee (Read More)
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Distinguished translator of Chinese classics jailed during the Cultural RevolutionWhen they came during the Cultural Revolution to take away Yang Xianyi, China's distinguished translator who has died aged 94, he had one regre (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Betting irregularities in football also on agenda• Meeting to take place on 2 December in Cape TownFifa's president Sepp Blatter has called an extraordinary meeting of the world governing body's executive committee in respo (Read More)
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A Belgian man diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time.via telegraph.co.ukSomewhere a writer for “House” is firing up his or her macbook. Posted via web from davidconnell on posterous (Read More)
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19:05 @Bernd_Pitz Die Big Five beschreiben Persönlichkeitsstrukturen, Ehrlichkeit ist aber eher eine Kategorie der Wahrnehmung, oder? # 16:23 @verlagsreport Wohl eher eine Implementierung unter Adobe Air, die dann AUCH a. d. (Read More)