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Mike Tyson is in the news again and yes it is for something that had to do with his temper. Tyson got into a fight with an overaggressive photographer at LAX on Wednesday.
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On Thursday Fidel Castro said that he doubts he'll still have the privilege of observing world events in four years, indicating awareness that he is nearing death.
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An Australian author has been sentenced in Thailand to three years in jail after he pleaded guilty to charges of insulting the country's royal family.
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Several persistent plaintiffs who are Undaunted by election results on Nov. 4 have pursued lawsuits asserting that Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he is not a natural born citizen. Their claims were rejected in lower courts.
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On Saturday the New York State Police used helicopters north of New York City to search for a 25-year-old Brooklyn woman who has been missing since early Wednesday morning.
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On Sunday India's foreign minister denied that he placed a call to Pakistan's president at the height of the Mumbai attacks, which led its air force going on high alert.
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On Thursday the Dalai Lama said that China lacks moral authority, including over the question of Tibet, to be a true superpower during a European tour that has angered Beijing.
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On Thursday the Swedish central bank made the decision to sharply reduce its main interest rate, in the first round of what was shaping up to be day of major moves by the global monetary authorities.
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Boxes from Africa came through Kennedy airport and they were marked “African Wooden Handicraft” and “Wooden Statues.” That was not what was in the boxes.
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On Thursday armored cars patrolled the streets of Zimbabwe's capital and residents rushed to the banks after limits on cash withdrawals were lifted in the inflation-ravaged African nation.
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London Scottish Bank is a lender who specialises in customers with poor credit histories and they plunged administration this morning after regulators stopped the group from accepting customer deposits.
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Rev. Joseph Illo, pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, is apparently not thrilled with Obama's pro-choice stance on abortion.
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On Monday the chief minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra told sources that he has offered to resign and this comes after his deputy stepped down over the attacks on the state capital Mumbai.
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The world's big oil exporters are struggling to trim production enough to boost prices as demands plummets but now Saudi Arabia says that $75 is a fair price for a barrel of oil. OPEC may still struggle to keep prices at any set level.
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The FBI is searching for a man who is on their most wanted list and they believe that he might be residing in Montana or Wyoming.
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Sources are claiming that Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-FL), whose predecessor Mark Foley resigned in disgrace, paid his alleged mistress more than $120,000 in a settlement.
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The British government has made an announcement that it is partially nationalizing three British banks with up to $63 billion of taxpayers' money. The unprecedented bail-out is an important step in thawing out frozen money markets.
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DiCaprio's and Crowe's new movie "Body of Lies" failed to take the top spot at the weekend box office in North America. It seems that the movie is a victim of moviegoers' preference for escapist fare amid a global financial turmoil.
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The presidential campaign is nearing the end and now John McCain plans to stress anew tax cuts as a way to fight the slowing economy that ha threatened global credit markets and hampered his candidacy.
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Thabo mbeki, the former president of South Africa, is due in Harare for further talks aimed at breaking the political impasse in Zimbabwe.
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