Archive for the ‘World News’
No favourite at Red Bull – Vettel
Sebastian Vettel denies Red Bull favour him over team-mate Mark Webber as the fall-out from their Turkish Grand Prix crash continues.
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BP plans to replace containment cap next month (AP)
AP – As officials reported a gradual increase in the amount of oil being captured from the spewing wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC said Monday that it plans next month to replace the cap collecting the crude with a slightly bigger device.
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Reporter quits over Israel remark
US White House reporter Helen Thomas retires after she said in an interview that Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine”.
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Apple shows off redesigned iPhone
Apple boss Steve Jobs unveils a redesign of the firm’s popular iPhone handset at an event in San Francisco.
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Police: Gunman kills 4 women but doesn’t shoot men (AP)
AP – A gunman shot and killed his wife outside a South Florida restaurant where she worked, then targeted women inside and killed three others before committing suicide, police said Monday.
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Lawyer: Sheen to plead guilty to misdemeanor (AP)
AP – Charlie Sheen could work at a Colorado theater company by day and spend his nights in jail under a deal reached with prosecutors that calls for him to plead guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in his domestic abuse case, an attorney said Monday.
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Search for Ore. boy who vanished from school grows (AP)
AP – A widening search for a 7-year-old boy who disappeared from his school entered a fourth day Monday, with sheriff’s deputies stopping motorists in the hunt for clues and distributing fliers bearing the picture of the spectacled boy.
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Mexico ‘grave’ has 77 bodies
Mexico police say they have found 77 bodies in an abandoned mine that appears to have been used as a mass grave by drugs gangs.
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US military detains soldier linked to Iraq video (AP)
AP – The Army has detained a 22-year-old soldier in Baghdad in connection with the leak of a military video that shows Apache helicopters gunning down unarmed men in Iraq, including two journalists, defense officials said Monday.
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