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Mazda was ordered by a Japanese court to pay 63 million yen ($770,000 -£473,000 ) in damages to the parents of an employee who was ruled to have committed suicide due to depression from being overworked.
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Two workers with Save the Children were abducted by masked gunmen in Somalia. The Somali has been released but a British man is still being held.
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The British aid worker who was killed in Afghanistan Friday night may have been accidentally killed by US forces who were trying to rescue her.
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A political advisor named Zhang Feng expressed his concern over the growing sexual repression among the nation's millions of migrant workers. He spoke at the Guangdong provincial political consultative conference held in the southern city Guangzhou.
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John Solecki was kidnapped more than two months ago near the Afghan border. He was freed Saturday according to a police official.
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Black Friday has gotten of to an inauspicious beginning. At a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream , NY, an overnight stock clerk was trampled to death and a pregnant shopper was knocked to the ground during the 5 a.m bargain rush.
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A fast food worker in Connecticut found a check in an envelope and picked it up thinking it was litter. The 47 year old man was able to return the check to the rightful owner, who is a landlord.
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Kirk Radomski, a formers Mets equipment manager, was charged by federal investigators on April 12 for selling steroids to past and present major league ballplayers.
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"Mr. Awesome" A.K.A. Duwinn McClelland managed to steal over $4000 from the City of New York to pay for internet pornagraphy. Investigators are wondering if it is related to a another theft of over $3.6 million.
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LOUISVILLE - Gov. Ernie Fletcher on Thursday signed into law a measure intended to make sure that the slaying of a Kentucky social worker won't happen again.
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Jennifer Warren, a mental health worker, was killed Sunday during a scheduled home visit to a patient.
 Workers building a World Cup stadium in northeastern Brazil have gone on strike to demand payment of delayed salaries. The union representing the workers said about 500 men stopped working in the host city of Fortaleza on Monday.
 It was sunny side up for some restaurant workers in Durham Region east of Toronto as they picked up a $21.4-million lottery prize Monday.
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