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The Costa Concordia has sat 300 metres off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio for 16 months and it appears it will be there about 7 more. The manager of the Titan Salvage operations to remove the ship, Todd Busch, said they'll tow away in December
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Next month, G8 leaders and their entourages descend on County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland for the 39th G8 summit, on June 17-18. Like earlier summits, an agreeable location will host the event, on the shores of picturesque Lough Erne.
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We can't show you a picture of Laura Fernee because we do not have one and nor do we have permission to use existing photos of her. But we'll link you to one. But let us begin by saying she is a good looking, dark-and-wavy-haired woman.
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With Nigel Wright, the now-former chief of staff for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, resigning Sunday, the ongoing Mike Duffy false residency claims scandal seems to have made the big time. The do-do has hit the fan and we can expect more of it.
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An unnamed man in Ireland decided to go to McDonald's on early Tuesday, and he decided to get into a high chair, but ended up getting stuck.
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A new Angus Reid survey conducted in Canada found 54 percent of respondents said they have called into work sick when they were not. Many who admitted in the survey they did so, 65 percent, said they did it because they were stressed or felt burned out.
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A Zimbabwe man being mourned by family and friends at his funeral as dead was in fact not dead. Fortunately for him, if fortune can be said to be involved in having a funeral while alive, his legs began to twitch.
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Summer is just around the corner — at least that's what the weathermen keep saying — and with summer comes a whole range of additional hazards faced by children — specifically, chemical injuries, says a new study.
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Francesco Schettino, captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia when it hit a reef and partially sank early last year, tried to plea bargain with the prosecutors handling his case. Looking for a prison term of 3 years, 4 months, he was flatly turned down.
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It seems Canadian pop star Justin Bieber is down a little loot. After his concert Sunday in Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium money made was put into what police there called a "strong room". It wasn't strong enough as thieves broke in and stole it.
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Convicted terrorist Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad has finally left the building that is Canada. He was flown to Lebanon on Saturday after using the Canadian legal system against itself to fight his deportation for 26 years.
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A new head-cooling cap is being used in London for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The cap cools the head and for most patients reduces or eliminates hair loss. Imperial College Healthcare is using the DigniCap system in two hospitals.
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In her first interview since being pulled from the rubble of a collapsed garment factory building, Reshma Begum said bosses forced them to work despite cracks in the building they worked in. She said she'll "never again work in a garment factory:"
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The pack of four or more pit bulls who mauled a California jogger, Pamela Devitt, to death Thursday morning, are likely among eight dogs sheriffs have in custody. Officers can't yet be sure they have the right dogs, but it seems highly likely they do.
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The U.S. Social Security Admin. has released the top baby name numbers for 2012 and for the 14th straight year Jacob is the most used baby boy name in the country. For girls there was also a repeat winner, but it's just the 2nd year in a row for Sophia.
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The fourth season of Love/Hate, RTÉ’s popular Dublin-set gangland drama, has just completed production, after two months of intensive filming.
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Killian Scott, one of the stars of Love/Hate, RTÉ’s popular Dublin-gangland drama series, is preparing for his latest movie, to be filmed in Eire’s capital city this summer.
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Media reports today say Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators his sister-in-law, Katherine Russell, did not know what he and his deceased brother Tamerlan were planning. He claims she was not a part of their Boston marathon attack.
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At the age of 82 Omara Portuondo, “the grand old lady of Cuban bolero” remains active delighting audiences in various parts of the world. Her busy schedule brought her to Chile and Brazil in May, and is taking her to Ireland and Poland in July.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Monday, the selection of ‘Biomass’ as the subject of its seventh Earth Explorer mission. The planned satellite will measure, to great accuracy, biomass and carbon stored in the world’s forests.
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