A gentle kiss on a South London street captured on a mobile telephone camera sealed Banaz Mahmod’s fate. When the photograph, taken by a member of the Kurdish community, was shown to Miss Mahmod’s uncle, Ari Mahmod, a family meeting was called where it was decided that the 20-year-old woman and her boyfriend, Rahmat Sulemani, must be murdered.
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The net's not just about eBay and MySpace. The ingenious sites here can transform your life in the real world. Want to be first in line for gig tickets, find free parking or get paid to shop? It's all just a click away
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Computer experts on Monday unveiled a digital reproduction of ancient Rome as it appeared at the peak of its power in A.D. 320 — what they called the largest and most complete simulation of a historic city ever created.
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While hugging and grasping at the adulating crowds in Albania, our feeble minded President gets ripped off. Keep your eyes on the watch, and see if you can figure out who takes it.
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Brutally honest... naaahhh. Twisted, and possibly more than a little realistic... definitely. Bound to offend 'folks'...maybe. But I think it's funny as hell, and at the very least you'll find amusing
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...and other such lake/island records, such as the largest island in a lake on an island. Maps and/or photos for each one.
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Middle School student Kyleray Katherman had a hunch something was amiss with the school's drinking fountain water. And right he was.
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A $3 gadget that promises to quench a user's thirst for a year without spare parts, electricity or maintenance...
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Mr. Wizard, the man who taught science to millions of geeks when we were kids, died today of cancer.
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it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels.”
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