On Friday Kate Middleton and Prince William, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — along with royal bro Prince Harry — toured Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden near London, where movies based on J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series were filmed. The royals [...]
A sharp-witted police officer in the Colombian city of Medellin saved a man from certain death by pulling him from the path of an oncoming train. The officer’s heroic actions were caught by a security camera at Medellin’s Hospital railway [...]
April 25, 2013
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In the central England city of Stoke-on-Trent, the cost of a cup of coffee could buy you a three-bedroom house. The city’s council is offering 35 derelict houses for sale at just £1 ($1.53) each, attracting the interest of 600 would-be [...]
April 24, 2013
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Wanted: senior management candidate for high-profile job in Wiltshire countryside. Must love rocks. Druids OK. If you’re the sort of person who’d circle that classified ad in your newspaper, there’s a $99,000-a-year-job available with English Heritage, the conservation organization that [...]
April 24, 2013
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“War,” Ambrose Bierce said, “is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.” But despite all the lessons learned during the long-running War on Terror, Americans could probably use a little more instruction. The Czech Embassy issued a statement following the attacks to [...]
April 23, 2013
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Tens of thousands of Dutch people have threatened to leave the country in protest over a pop song written for the inauguration of Holland’s new king. After Queen Beatrix abdicated in January, Crown Prince Willem Alexander is set to become the [...]
April 23, 2013
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When you’re a journalist and news breaks, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Take, for example, Chinese TV reporter Chen Ying, who covered the deadly earthquake that jolted China’s Sichuan province this week while wearing her wedding [...]
April 22, 2013
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New Zealand marked a watershed moment Wednesday, when 77 of 121 members of its Parliament voted in favor of amending the 1955 Marriage Act to allow same-sex couples to marry — making it the 13th nation to legalize gay marriage [...]
April 18, 2013
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It’s a good problem to have, but it’s still a problem for three men who have reportedly been deported from Saudi Arabia for being “too handsome.” The men were visiting Saudi Arabia from the United Arab Emirates to attend the [...]
April 17, 2013
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Love truly knows no boundaries — not even the heavily monitored U.S.-Mexico border. In a unique ceremony thatAgence France Presse reported meets all applicable U.S. immigration laws, an American citizen married her Mexican fiancé on Apr. 11 on a raft that carried [...]
April 17, 2013
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