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Woman smokes meth, breastfeeds, kills son
published on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:07:50 +1200
A California woman accused of killing her infant son by breastfeeding him after she used methamphetamine has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.The T imes-Standard of Eureka reports that Maggie Wortman entered her plea Monday...
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Building collapse in Brazil leaves 3-year-old dead
published on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:37:20 +1200
A 13-story building partially collapsed in an industrial suburb outside Sao Paulo, Brazil killing a 3-year-old girl, firefighters said today.The concrete floor of the top story collapsed and took down all the other floors in the...
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Israel opens archive on legendary Nazi capture
published on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:53:56 +1200
Lifting a half-century veil of secrecy, Israel's Mossad spy agency is opening its archive this week to reveal the story behind the legendary 1960 capture of Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann.The "Operation Finale" exhibit, curated...
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Charles Dickens' 200th birthday celebrations (+video)
published on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:46:31 +1200
He wrote about life in the modern city, with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks. He created characters still known to millions Ebeneezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Miss Havisham, Fagin and Oliver...
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California court rules gay-marriage ban unconstitutional
published on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:31:02 +1200
A federal appeals court has declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the US Supreme Court.A three-judge panel of...
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Experts voice nerve agent fears
published on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:35:00 +1200
Leading neuroscientists believe that the British Government may be about to sanction the development of nerve agents for British police that would be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical weapons.A high-level...
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Killing 9-year-old neighbour 'was ahmazing', teen wrote in diary
published on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:30:20 +1200
A US teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbour wrote in her diary on the night of the killing that it was an "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable" experience then headed off to church with...
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City of water on ice
published on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:30:18 +1200
The Cannaregio Channel and the San Giuliano Channel, which links Venice to its mainland urban centre of Mestre, are partially iced because of unusually low temperatures.Schools were closed in Rome yesterday as Italy coped with heavy...
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Bystanders filmed as mother swept away
published on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:30:16 +1200
Dozens of men watched, some of them trying to film with their mobile phones, as young Queensland mother Jane Sheahan handed her son Darcy to rescuers and asked them to "save my boy" before being swept to her death in raging floodwaters.Details...
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Orca's case against slavery goes to court
published on Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:30:14 +1200
A federal judge for the first time in United States history has heard arguments in a case that could determine whether animals enjoy the same constitutional protection against slavery as human beings.US District Judge Jeffrey Miller...
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