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Alleged Mexican drug lord Sergio Villarreal, known as El Grande, is extradited to the United States for trial on charges of drug trafficking.
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A Manhattan attorney who sued a Wall Street health club because it quit serving free breakfast has to fork over $440 after a judge ruled that his lawsuit was toast. Richard Katz was a member of the posh, exclusive The Setai Wall Street Club and Spa...(more)
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt resumes its first free presidential election on Thursday after voting passed off mostly calmly on the first day apart from a stone-throwing attack on candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was premier for a few days before Hosni Mubarak fell. The race broadly pits...(more)
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After the active ingredient in most birth control pills has done its duty preventing pregnancy, it begins a second life as a pollutant that can harm wildlife in waterways.
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Agency head apologises for Cartagena prostitution scandal, but senators don't seem convinced the incident was isolatedThe head of the US secret service went before Congress on Wednesday in an attempt to play down the Cartagena sex scandal, but his testimony appeared not to convince sceptical senators.Mark...(more)
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Two weeks after President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that he has "no problem with it." Powell, who is doing a series of television interviews to promote a new book, endorsed...(more)
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PARIS (Reuters) - Members of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) agreed on Wednesday on cattle breeding rules, its first ever deal on livestock production.
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Finding parking in New York City can be notoriously difficult. But would you pay $1 million just to have your own guaranteed spot? That's the forthcoming offer in one luxury condo building that will charge $1,000,000 for an otherwise standard parking spot in its building. The...(more)
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The Maryland businessman who was the prime suspect in the disappearance of his female traveling companion in Aruba last summer was caught in a naked romp with a woman in his parked Cadillac Escalade, police said.
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At least three Lebanese Shia pilgrims in Iraq are killed and seven wounded as their bus in hit by a roadside bomb in the central city of Ramadi.
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Federal agents and city cops busted up a large open air prescription drug market in Washington Heights and arrested a man who made millions by driving to Boston to resell the pills for a huge markup.
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LIMA (Reuters) - The mystery surrounding the deaths of at least 877 dolphins in Peru deepened on Wednesday as the government said human activity was not to blame but failed to pinpoint a natural cause for the massive die-off.
