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Actress Bynes arrested in NYC on marijuana charge
apartment building on West 47th Street at about 7:40 p.m. Thursday. Police say a building official called police to complain that Bynes was smoking marijuana and rolling a joint in the building's lobby. The officers went to Bynes' apartment where they saw heavy smoke and a bong, which Bynes then threw out the window in front of the officers. Bynes was arrested on charges of reckless ...
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5.7-magnitude earthquake shakes Northern California
GREENVILLE (AP) — An earthquake that struck Northern California’s Plumas County with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 was felt by residents of ...
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Sociedad aim to bounce back in Euro race
Real Sociedad will have to recover quickly from the news that their coach Philippe Montanier will leave to join Rennes at the end of the season as they face Real Madrid in a crucial match in their quest to claim the fourth and final UEFA Champions League place from La ...
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Euro zone more stable needs a more European UK
euro zone is more stable than a year ago but economic conditions remain challenging and governments must push on with reforms and banking union ...
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Euro Advances Versus Yen Before German Data as Stocks Rebound
May 24 (Bloomberg) -- The euro rose against the yen, paring a weekly decline, before German data that may show business confidence bottomed out after a two-month decline. Europe's currency was set for a weekly advance versus the dollar after a private report yesterday showed a gauge of the region's ...
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Researchers to be living on the moon NASA
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - The moon is pictured above Earth in this handout photo courtesy of Col. Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency. REUTERS/CSA/Col. Chris ...
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ECB cant solve euro zone crisis alone Weidmann
Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said on Thursday it was not up to the European Central Bank to solve the euro zone crisis, resisting pressure from other ECB policymakers for the bank to widen its range of policy tools. Speaking in Paris, Weidmann declined to comment on U.S. Federal Reserve chairman ...
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Once prominent swim coach gets 7 years for sex abuse
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) -- A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he ...
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Woman 87 loses to billionaire Trump in civil case
View Photo Associated Press/M. Spencer Green, File - FILE - In this May 14, 2013 file photo, Donald Trump arrives at federal court in Chicago to testify at a civil trial where he is accused of cheating an ...
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Jodi Arias jury cannot decide on death penalty
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Jodi Arias addresses the jury during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Rob Schumacher/Arizona ...
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New federal rules for meat labels take effect
U.S. will soon have more information about where their meat comes from after new federal labeling rules went into effect Thursday. The rules ...
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British police ponder conspiracy after soldier murder
LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee ...
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Dollar euro slump versus yen on stock losses China data
The dollar was on track for its biggest daily drop in more than five weeks against the yen on Thursday after a sharp slide in Japanese stocks and weak Chinese factory activity data prompted a rush for the safe-haven Japanese currency. The yen also rallied versus the euro and other currencies, ...
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Volunteers rescue memories from Okla. tornado debris
Photos recovered from the debris after a tornado swept through Moore, Okla. (Jason Sickles/Yahoo News) MOORE, Okla. -- Some of the photos are crumpled. Others coated in crud. But what the monster tornado couldn't obliterate are the memories captured in the ...
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New York man held captive for a month in warehouse rescued by police
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3 million ransom from his family in Ecuador, authorities said. Acting on a tip from the victim's mother, police ...
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Eurozone Recession Eases Markit Index
eurozone eased in May, a key economic indicator released Thursday showed. The London-based research group Markit said its closely watched Purchasing Managers Index for the region's manufacturing and service sectors rose to a three-month high of 47.7 points in May from 46.9 in April. The May index was higher than the 47.2 points forecast by analysts. However, a reading below 50 ...
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Get ready for a ‘extremely active’ hurricane season
A house leveled during superstorm Sandy in Fairfield, Conn. (Dylan Stableford/Yahoo News) A year after superstorm Sandy, residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts should prepare for "an extremely active" 2013 hurricane season, U.S. forecasters say. There will be between three and six major hurricanes this year with winds above 111 ...
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The Eurozones FTT plan is vicious unfair and counter-productive
Vicious, unfair and utterly counter-productive. These are the words that come to mind when I think about one of the latest Eurozone strokes of genius: the financial transaction tax (FTT). When I spoke at the Bloomberg #FXDebate event in London recently, I mentioned that we should all prepare for the expropriation of significant amounts of our wealth through confiscatory stealth taxes based on ...
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Trouble with the new 5 euro notes
Holiday-makers planning to travel to Greece this summer may be well advised not to take the new five-euro bank notes with them. The new five-euro notes that began circulating earlier this month are not recognised ...
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Euro golf tour CEO apologizes for racial remark
Sergio Garcia of Spain emerges from a meeting in the rules office with George O'Grady, Chief Executive of the European Tour during the Pro-Am round prior to the BMW PGA Championship on the West Course at Wentworth on May 22, 2013 in Virginia Water, England. (Richard Heathcote, Getty ...
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‘We aren’t daredevils’ Okla. storm chasers in the sky
KWTV's Jim Gardner in his helicopter (via Facebook) MOORE, Okla.--As a helicopter pilot for Los Angeles's KCAL-TV, Jim Gardner had flown over deadly mudslides and earthquakes, covered car chases and was shot at by snipers during the L.A. riots. Yet Gardner was best known for giving the world its first glimpse of O.J. Simpson's infamous white Bronco leading police on a low-speed ...
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Body of child found after deadly Minnesota landslide
recovered the body of a child missing since a rockslide killed a classmate and left two others injured at the park along the Mississippi River. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Nicole Norfleet) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV ...
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George Zimmerman defense releases photos texts of Trayvon Martin
Martin last year during a confrontation at a gated community in Sanford. He is pleading not guilty, claiming self-defense. His trial starts next month. The photos show Martin blowing smoke and extending his middle finger to the camera. The photos also show a gun and what appears to be a potted marijuana plant. In the text messages, Martin tells a friend that his mother has told him he needs to ...
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Fewer new orders mean continued eurozone recession
The eurozone’s downturn has eased slightly, but businesses continue to suffer from a chronic lack of new orders, which should inhibit any meaningful near-term recovery. As a result the region is likely to remain in recession in the second quarter of 2013. Surveys of companies – both in the manufacturing and the services sector – pointed to a similar contraction to the 0.3 ...
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European stocks slump in wake of Tokyo plunge
LONDON (AFP) - European stock markets slumped Thursday, with most indices dropping more than 2.0 percent after Tokyo shares plunged owing to weak Chinese data and signs that the US Federal Reserve may soon taper massive stimulus measures, analysts said.London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares fell 2.10 percent to 6,696.79 points, while in Frankfurt the DAX 30 index also dropped 2.10 ...
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Switzerland world's most competitive country
Switzerland is frequently pointed to as a model of good governance, prosperity, innovation and stability and is one of the happiest countries in the world. The recent competitive survey by the WEF underscored this, but came with a warning.
Switzerland truly is an impressive country, landlocked and small with no natural resources; it has developed into one of the richest countries in the world and was recently named the most competitive economy in the world. This is due in large part to its banking sector, which is one of the most advanced and its government structure, which is efficient in comparison to many other developed countries. Read more
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