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A teenage girl has had a remarkable escape after she fell into an underground cavern in northern China. The teenager was walking by a road in the city of Xi'an when she suddenly vanished through the pavement and had to be rescued.
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A gunman who killed a teenage girl and wounded an older woman survived a shootout with cops in Harlem Tuesday morning, police said.
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Bank hopes impairment charges will fall this year from last year's high levels, but pace of reduction depends on its Irish residential mortgage book and commercial property marketsBank of Ireland, the only Irish lender to escape nationalisation during the financial crisis, warned that arrears on residential...(more)
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Look at Lebanon – its delicate balance depends on there being confidence that no one particular group is dominating the systemThe likely failure of special envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan reflects a dire situation in Syria. To avert a dramatic escalation, the country needs a structured...(more)
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However arresting the girl in green is, the idea of staying focused on Afghanistan's progress is unpopular these days"Hard-working Afghan photographer wins Pulitzer" – that's the general headline the international press ran with last week as Massoud Hossaini's photograph, the girl in green, won the Pulitzer...(more)
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Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including Theresa May giving evidence to the Commons home affairs committee about Abu Qatada10.20am: Borrowing figures are out this morning. Here's the start of the Press Association story about them.Government borrowing reduced by nearly £11bn...(more)
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Auction of €2.5bn of sovereign debt proceeded smoothly this morning, in early test of market confidence after prime minister's resignation• Today's agenda10.21am: A bit more bond auction action -- Italy has seen its borrowing costs jump, selling €3.34bn of debt at the highest costs since January.Bloomberg...(more)
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George Zimmerman, who slipped out of jail on $150,000 bail in the early morning darkness, went back into hiding Monday and likely fled to another state to avoid threats as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin.
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A DESPERATE accountant for a Manhattan charity for the homeless was busted Monday on charges of cutting phony checks to buy himself a secondhand luxury car. Gary Ling, 33, of Woodside, Queens, the former director of finance at Association of Community Employment Programs of the Homeless,...(more)
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New Yorkers really love Raymond Kelly as their police commissioner — and nearly half hope he runs for mayor next year. Kelly’s job approval rating is an impressive 77%, while his 63% favorability rating among city voters is by far the highest of anyone considering a...(more)
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THE SUPREME Court Monday refused to hear an appeal from a Manhattan couple seeking to end rent-stabilization laws. James and Jeanne Harmon had lost earlier court attempts to get the laws thrown out, the most recent of which was a decision last year by the 2nd...(more)
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