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US President's Nobel speech forecasts more bloodshed to come in Afghanistan
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'Lover' apologises to Tiger's wife
Friday, 11 December 2009
Jamiee Grubbs, the first of a parade of women who have surfaced in the last two weeks as alleged former lovers of the married golfing star Tiger Woods, may have a word or two she would like to say to him. But first it was his wife, Elin Nordegren, that she addressed yesterday along the lines of "Oops, I'm sorry".
Liza Minnelli sex lawsuit is settled out of court
Friday, 11 December 2009
Chauffeur drops claim that singer beat him and coerced him into sex
Honduras deadlock over Zelaya
Friday, 11 December 2009
Honduras's coup-installed government said yesterday that there will be no deal for ousted leader Manuel Zelaya to leave the country unless he goes as a private citizen – not as the country's president.
Guy Adams: Revealed - Scientologists claim the dead Michael Jackson as one of their own
Friday, 11 December 2009
A few weeks back, I discovered that the Church of Scientology was using images of Sir Winston Churchill, together with quotations from his speeches on a selection of its fundraising and recruitment literature.
Court to rule if Polanski can fight case from afar
Thursday, 10 December 2009
A Los Angeles appeals court will consider whether Roman Polanski needs to appear in person to pursue his claim that his child rape case was tainted by judicial and prosecutorial misconduct and should be thrown out.
Frosty the smutty snowman's adult skit whips up storm for CBS
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Fury over adult-themed trailers promoting network's Christmas schedule
Obama 'doesn't deserve' peace prize
Thursday, 10 December 2009
President Barack Obama will accept this year's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo this morning, tackling head-on the paradox in his receiving the accolade just 10 days after committing an additional 30,000 US troops to the war in Afghanistan.
Nanny prosecutor is likely Kennedy successor
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
David Usborne: Martha Coakley, who led the 1997 case against Briton Louise Woodward, is set to be next US Senator from Massachusetts
Woods counts cost of scandal as television adverts disappear
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Golf star plummets 18 places on list of industry's most valuable 'faces'
Convicted killer executed with pet anaesthetic
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
The state of Ohio yesterday executed a convicted murderer using the first lethal injection to contain just a single poison rather than the cocktail of three chemicals that has hitherto been used across the US.
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