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Queens coronation outfit to go on show at Buckingham Palace for first time in celebration of 60th anniversary
Now, 60 years after the Queen was formally crowned at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace is to reunite for the first time some of the dresses, uniforms, robes and jewellery worn for the historic ...
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First ever streaker at the Chelsea Flower Show Man strips off and plunges into pool of award-winning garden
Tim Wilkinson was so ecstatic that Trailfinders Australian Garden won the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Best in Show award that he celebrated by stripping off and jumping into a nearby water ...
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Eddie Braben dies Morecambe and Wise scriptwriter dead at 82
He later worked with Ken Dodd, Ronnie Corbett and Morecambe and Wise Braben won the Best British Light Entertainment Script award four times ...
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Young mother is a ticking timebomb due to EIGHT tumours that cause hearing loss and balance problems - and theres a 50 chance her son could inherit the condition
Derrie Tustin, 25, has five non-cancerous tumours in her brain and three on her spine - and doctors have warned her that more could develop at any ...
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Police hunting 3 suspects in Cannes jewellery heist
French police said Tuesday they were hunting three men suspected of being behind the spectacular theft last week of a million euros (US$1.4 million) worth of jewellery at the Cannes Film ...
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Oklahoma tornado Frantic search for victims continues as tales of survival emerge
A monstrous tornado that may be remembered as among the largest and most destructive in American history roared through a heavily populated suburb of Oklahoma City, cutting a swathe as much as two miles wide and flattening homes, shops, hospitals and, perhaps most devastatingly, schools that had no time to ...
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Jodi Arias could join tiny death row group
Jodi Arias stands and looks as the jury is excused for the lunch break during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, April 4, 2013. Arias is on trial for the killing of her boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008. (REUTERS/David Wallace/The Arizona ...
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Officials revise death toll in Oklahoma tornado
Two girls stand in rubble after a tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, May 20, 2013. A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. REUTERS/Gene ...
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Syria Destroys Israeli Vehicle In Golan Heights
Syria claims it has destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights. Israel acknowledged a vehicle was hit by gunfire but said it was inside its territory at the time and none of its soldiers had been hurt. "In response, IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) forces returned precise fire at the source of the gunfire. They reported a direct hit," it said in ...
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Ireland says not to blame for Apples low tax rate
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland said on Tuesday it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments after the U.S. Senate said the company paid little or nothing on tens of billions of dollars in profits stashed in Irish ...
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UKs Cameron committed to ruling in coalition until 2015 spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is committed to governing as part of a two-party coalition until the next national election in 2015, his spokesman said on Tuesday, days after Cameron raised the prospect of the alliance breaking ...
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Boat hijack stokes tension between N. Korea China
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits Breeding Station No. 621 of the Korean People's Army, under construction at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in an undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on May 21, ...
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More severe weather expected after monster tornado
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., says golf ball-sized hail, powerful winds and isolated, strong tornadoes could strike areas of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma on Tuesday. The area at risk does not include Moore, Okla., where dozens of people were killed in a monstrous tornado Monday. Severe weather warnings extend through most of the central United States, with conditions ...
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US senate to grill Apple over tax evasion
The chief executive of Apple is to be questioned about tax evasion after a US Senate investigation found that it uses overseas companies to avoid paying billions of dollars in ...
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Crews Search for Survivors in Oklahoma After Tornado
MOORE, Okla. ...
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Anchored Putting Strokes to Be Banned in 2016
FAR HILLS, N. J. ...
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Two Senior Saakashvili Allies Ex-Ministers Arrested In Georgia
TBILISI -- Former Georgian Prime Minister Ivane Merabishvili and former Health Minister Zurab Chiaberashvili have been arrested and charged with embezzling public funds. They are close associates of President Mihkeil Saakashvili and members of his United National Movement party. Georgia's Interior Ministry said the two former officials were summoned to the prosecutor’s office in ...
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Levada Center Russia’s Most Respected Pollster Fears Closure
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Kyrgyz To Cancel Manas Transit Center Deal With U.S.
BISHKEK -- The Kyrgyz government has decided to cancel the U.S.-Kyrgyz agreement on NATO's use of a transit center near Bishkek as of July 2014. The announcement of the decision appeared on the cabinet's official website on May 21. It says a draft of the decision will soon be given to the parliament for approval. The Transit Center at Manas International Airport has played a ...
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Romanian journalist assaulted called ‘kike’
The prime minister of Romania this week instructed authorities to investigate an apparent anti-Semitic assault on a journalist in Bucharest.According to a statement by the MCA Romania, The Center for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism in Romania, Prime Minister Victor Ponta gave the order in connection with an incident which happened on May 17 to Mircea Marian, a journalist with the national ...
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More questions as IRS scandal widens
The report was issued by a Treasury inspector general on May 14, four days after an IRS official had acknowledged, and apologised for, the agency's targeting of conservative groups with names such as ';Tea Party'; and ';Patriots'; that had applied for tax-exempt ...
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Syrian Forces and Hezbollah Fighters Press Assault in Key Town
BEIRUT, Lebanon ...
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Video Oklahoma tornado survivor reunited with pet dog
One of the survivors of the devastating tornado, which ripped through the suburbs of Moore, Oklahoma City has been reunited with her pet ...
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Best Buy profit tops estimates sales miss
(Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales on Tuesday and warned that a slew of investments to win back shoppers could squeeze profits in the near ...
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Video School children amongst Okla. tornado casualties
Two elementary schools -- Briarwood Elementary and Plaza Towers Elementary -- were also hit by the tornado that leveled residential areas in Moore, Okla. "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell reports several children died as a result of the ...
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Car manufacturing looking up for Buenos Aires
The financial crisis has been hard on Buenos Aires, but recent announcements by Ford and VW seem to herald a change in the city’s fortunes.
The financial crisis has hit cities and countries hard around the world, Buenos Aires and Argentina included. Unemployment is up by record amounts, the government, like governments across the globe, is struggling to contain a budget deficit, and international trade, on which the country so heavily relies, is down by double-digit amounts. Read more
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