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Europe's biggest jackpot finds a winner - 08/23/2009

ROME- Residents of a village in central Italy were celebrating Saturday after a ticket sold there produced the richest jackpot in European lottery history -- nearly 148 million euros. After weeks...

US offers reward for model's suspected killer - 08/22/2009

LOS ANGELES - US Marshals on Friday posted a 25,000 dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of a reality television show contestant accused of killing a swimsuit model he was romantically...

Canadian model unmasks blog tormentor - 08/21/2009

WASHINGTON, Chris Lefkow - A Canadian model has won a landmark case in a New York court after Google was forced to disclose the online identity of a blogger who anonymously posted derogatory comments...

Vote school for illiterate Afghans - 08/16/2009

HERAT, Charlotte McDonald-Gibson - Seventy-year-old shepherd Khak Mohammad arrives at Herat's eye hospital just as a team of election educators wrap up a lecture on how to vote in Afghanistan's...

Schools shut in India as swine flu anxiety spreads - 08/14/2009

MUMBAI, Phil Hazlewood - Thousands of schools, colleges and cinemas shut down in India's financial capital Mumbai on Thursday to combat the spread of swine flu as the government struggled to contain...

Remember students' Lockerbie deaths, university tells Britain - 08/14/2009

NEW YORK - The US university which lost 35 students in the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing on Thursday urged Britain to remember "the tremendous loss," as reports said the convicted bomber may be released...

College e-textbooks go to class in iPhones - 08/11/2009

SAN FRANCISCO - US and Canadian college students can pack textbooks into their pockets instead of spine-bending backpacks courtesy of an iPhone application released by CourseSmart. The northern...

Raiders target diamond store in Britain's biggest gem robbery - 08/11/2009

LONDON - Robbers pulled off what is thought to be Britain's biggest jewellery heist in a 40-million-pound (47-million-euro, 65-million-dollar) raid at a chic London shop, police said Tuesday. Two...

Jersey children's carer was 'sexual bully,' court hears - 08/10/2009

LONDON- August 10, 2009 (AFP) - A carer at a former children's home on the Channel island of Jersey was a "sexual bully" who repeatedly abused youngsters, prosecutors said Monday. Gordon...

Attacks on US homeless becoming tren - 08/10/2009

WASHINGTON- As tough economic times push more people onto the streets, the number of violent, sometimes deadly attacks against the homeless are becoming a trend in the United States, a report has...
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