And even though medics have warned that her breasts are in danger of exploding, she does not seem to care.
Sheyla, from Houston, Texas, said: “To me, big is beautiful. I don’t think I have anything to worry about.” More...
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Her eldest son, Prince Charles, received 95,222.56 pounds for his Duchy of Cornwall, and 86,262.98 for the Duchy's farm -- a total of 181,485.54 pounds. More...
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Selon l’enquête Mercer 2009 sur la qualité de la vie, Vienne a détrôné Zurich pour devenir la ville offrant la meilleure qualité de vie au monde. Genève occupe la troisième place, tandis que Vancouver et Auckland sont quatrièmes ex æquo du classement.
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Cette année, le critère « Infrastructure urbaine » a fait l’objet d’un classement spécifique plus particulièrement analysé ci-dessous.
Ce critère se fonde sur la distribution d’électricité, la disponibilité de l’eau, les services téléphoniques et postaux, les transports en commun, l’encombrement de la circulation et les vols internationaux proposés en partance des aéroports locaux.
Sur la base de ce critère, Singapour occupe la première place avec un score de 109,1, suivie par Munich et Copenhague. Viennent ensuite les villes japonaises de Tsukuba (4e) et Yokohama (5e), devant Düsseldorf et Vancouver qui partagent la sixième place. Bagdad se situe à la dernière place sur ce critère avec 19,6. Article complet + classement...
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Les autorités suisses n'ont pas suffisamment pris en compte la situation personnelle du jeune homme, qui n'était pas opposé à faire son service, a souligné la Cour. Celle-ci a aussi déploré que la loi suisse n'ait pas prévu d'exemption de la taxe pour les personnes qui ont un handicap inférieur à 40% et dont la situation financière est modeste. Suite...
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The picture of the stuffed animal was so cute--it reminded me of smurf, but with no body. More...
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The girl was allowed to divorce the 50-year-old man who she married in August after an out-of-court settlement had been reached in the case, said her lawyer, Abdulla al-Jeteli. The exact date of the divorce was not immediately known. More...
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Des avions sri lankais bombardent des villages tamouls…
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The 15-year-old heard his father's voice running through his head: Fight only as a last resort, only in self-defence, only if given no choice, and only with the left hand.
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The 15-year-old, the only person charged in connection with the April 21 school fight, faces one count of assault causing bodily harm.
But a remarkable thing happened this week. Full story...
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Prejean was named the first runner-up to Miss North Carolina in the Miss USA pageant April 19. Her response to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton's question about legalizing same-sex marriage may have cost her the title. Source + video...
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And now it appears that she is far from alone with millions of filthy females living in dirty lingerie.
The average woman wears her bra seven times over an eight week period before washing it. More...
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Nous avons rendez-vous en face de la gare de New Delhi, dans le quartier des petits hôtels pour globe-trotters, backpackers et autres touristes peu fortunés. Céline et Mathias portent des foulards colorés, sandales de marche et sac en bandoulière. Mais le jeune couple n'est pas là pour se balader, ils sont venus à New Delhi se battre contre l'administration indienne. Ce soir, les deux vaudois sont éreintés: comme depuis trois mois, ils ont passé la journée à être renvoyés d'un bureau à l'autre. Suite...
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Zeng Jing, une jeune fille du Guangdong qui pèse 110 kilo, connue sous le titre de "plus gros mannequin de Chine", a conçu sa propre robe de mariée. Les huit autres jeunes filles ont été choisies parmi 246 candidates de tout le pays. Chacune d'entre elles pèsent plus de 75 kilos.
Les jeunes femmes ont profité de l'occasion pour souligner les difficultés des personnes obèses et encourager la poursuite du bonheur au-delà du poids. Source + photos...
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La « menace » de grippe porcine commence à affoler les foules. Comme si les cochons mexicains et américains étaient déjà partis à la nage vers l’Europe...pour nous envahir avec une grippe qui n’est pas plus porcine que bovine. Juste une grippe comme le furent d’autres épidémies. Un affolement qui permettrait à la France (et à d’autres pays...) d’écouler les stocks de Tamiflu, le fameux médicament inefficace dont le gouvernement a acheté des dizaines de millions de doses qui sont sur le point d’être périmées. Avec encore plus de masques qui ne serviraient à rien. Suite...
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We have gone demented. Two Britons are or were (not very) ill from flu. "This could really explode," intones a reporter for BBC News. "London warned: it's here," cries the Evening Standard. Fear is said to be spreading "like a Mexican wave". It "could affect" three-quarters of a million Britons. It "could cost" three trillion dollars. The "danger", according to the radio, is that workers who are not ill will be "worried" (perhaps by the reporter) and fail to turn up at power stations and hospitals.
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Health scares are like terrorist ones. Someone somewhere has an interest in it. We depend on others with specialist knowledge to advise and warn us and assume they offer advice on a dispassionate basis, using their expertise to assess danger and communicating it in measured English. Words such as possibly, potentially, could or might should be avoided. They are unspecific qualifiers and open to exaggeration. Full story...
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Correspondence from Lamar indicated that the company had received complaints about the billboards’ message, which said: “Tell Congress: Stop Killing Children. No More Military Aid to Israel.”
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On April 8th, the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel erected the billboards throughout the Albuquerque area in order to inform the public about the misuse of their tax dollars, denominated in human lives. The group was motivated by concern for the Palestinian people who had recently been subjected to a massive invasion of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military. Over 1,400 Palestinians – mostly civilian, including three hundred children – were killed and over 5,000 were injured. In 2007 the Bush administration signed a Memorandum of Understanding that provides $30 billion of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Israel over a ten year period beginning in 2008. The majority of these dollars will be used to purchase American-made weapons. More...
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Of course it is. I should have known. But then I'm not a child genius with a startlingly high IQ.
And Elise Tan-Roberts - aged two years, four months and two weeks - is. More...
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Mr Fofana and most of his 26 alleged accomplices have admitted their roles in the kidnapping of Ilan Halimi, 23, an assistant in a Paris telephone shop, who was held for ransom for 24 days in the suburb of Bagneux. More...
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Jill Price a fait sensation lors d'une émission sur la chaîne ABC, en 2006 : questionnée sur la date de diffusion de l'épisode de Dallas sur la mort de JR, cette Américaine avait à la fois donné celle de l'assassinat du héros de la série, et celle où le nom de son assassin fut révélé, se souvient Gary Marcus. C'est la première fois que ce psychologue à l'université de New York la voyait. Il a depuis passé deux jours à ses côtés, et raconte cette expérience dans un récent article du magazine Wired.
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Les trois chercheurs ont conclu que Jill Price témoigne d'une forme de mémoire autobiographique inhabituelle, soulignant qu'à la différence d'autres personnes ayant une mémoire supérieure, elle n'utilise pas de moyens mémotechniques. Elle explique pour sa part "quand j'entends une date, je vois ce jour". Article complet...
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Silvio Berlusconi possède un goût un peu trop prononcé pour les belles femmes en politique. C'est du moins ce que pense son épouse, qui s'est fendue d'un courrier électronique à l'agence italienne Ansa, repris mercredi dans toute la presse transalpine. Veronica Lario y dénonce le soutien de son mari à certaines candidates plus connues pour leur plastique que pour leur sens politique aux élections européennes de juin. Suite...
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The campaigners are asking the wives of the Kenyan president and the prime minister to join in the embargo. More...
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Singh instantly became a national celebrity and was flooded with marriage proposals, boxes of sweets and even money. But he politely refused everything, saying that his shoe-throwing was a "nonprofit exercise." Full story...
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Between January 2007 and the end of 2008 there were 24 hangings in the Bridgend borough - all involving people aged 15 to 28. Full story...
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Veronica Berlusconi, 52, who has publicly lamented her husband's eye for younger women in the past, also accused her 72-year-old husband of going to the birthday party of an 18-year-old woman in Naples but not attending his children's coming-of-age-parties. More...
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La progression des taliban ce mois-ci dans une région située à 100 km seulement au nord-ouest d'Islamabad a provoqué une onde de choc au Pakistan, en faisant craindre aux Etats-Unis une déstabilisation accrue de cette puissance nucléaire alliée qui se trouve en première ligne dans le conflit d'Afghanistan. Suite...
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Un article paru voici quelques mois dans le journal londonien The Independant, fait écho à cette déclaration, affirmant que « dès la chute du gouvernement en 1991, de mystérieux bateaux européens ont fait leur apparition au large des côtes somaliennes, se délestant d’étranges cargaisons de barils. Peu après, la population a été prise de malaises divers : démangeaisons, nausées, etc. Suite au tsunami de 2005, l’échouage de quelques-uns de ces barils sur les plages, ayant bien entendu suscité curiosité et manipulation de la part des plus curieux, de graves signes de contamination radioactive se sont alors manifestés, entraînant le décès de quelques trois cents âmes. » Interrogés par Reuters, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, représentant de l’ONU en Somalie, devait confirmer « la présence de métaux lourds (plomb, cadmium, mercure) dans ces cargaisons provenant d’hôpitaux ou d’usines » et accuser « la mafia italienne (sic) de s’en être débarrassée à moindre frais ». Article complet...
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Un poulet complètement déchainé !!! Hallucinant…
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I started writing about food because I was tired of vegetarians and vegans telling me I should stop eating meat all together as my carnivorous consumption was inhumane and contrary to humanities’ evolution as a species. I eat meat. I will continue to eat meat. And I think you should too.
One of my quickest responses to the vegetarian/vegan anti-meat rhetoric is that if we were all vegetarians, there would be no fertilizer and then eventually no plants. If we only consumed plants, all the farmland now used to raise livestock would have to be used to raise edible plants, which could mean no livestock and in turn, no fertilizer from that livestock. In the long term, this would mean no plants. Or plants only raised on artificially produced fertilizers, which would also mean polluted waters. More...
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The rankings are based on a point-scoring index, which sees Vienna score 108.6, and Baghdad 14.4. Cities are ranked against New York as the base city with an index score of 100. Mercer’s Quality of Living ranking covers 215 cities and is conducted to help governments and major companies place employees on international assignments. More + rankings...
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Mais n’espérez pas non plus faire fortune à cause d’une boite de conserve qui serait un peu rude envers vous. Suite...
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Selon l’Organisation internationale du travail (OIT), plus de 5 500 travailleurs meurent, chaque jour, d’accidents ou de maladies liés à leur travail. La crise mondiale va-t-elle aggraver ce bilan ? «On peut s’attendre à ce que le nombre d’accidents du travail, de maladies professionnelles et de problèmes de santé consécutifs au chômage augmente à la lumière de la crise économique actuelle», selon le docteur Sameera Al-Tuwaijri, directrice du Programme SafeWork de l’OIT. «La diminution des dépenses publiques va également compromettre les capacités des inspections du travail et des autres services de santé et de sécurité au travail. Les conditions de travail précaires vont se développer, accentuant le risque d’accidents et de problèmes de santé.»
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Françoise a 57 ans, elle travaille dans une grande société d’assurance depuis ses 17 ans. Elle vient de prendre sa décision: elle partira à la retraite avant l’heure et négociera un départ à l’amiable. «Je ne supporte plus la pression. A partir d’un certain âge, tu as l’impression d’être un numéro. La haute hiérarchie ne te connaît pas, on ne te demande plus ton avis. Mon expérience, je ne peux plus la mettre en pratique, elle ne sert à rien. Les délais sont si courts que j’ai tout le temps l’impression d’être débordée. En informatique, je me suis formée sur le tas, comme tous les gens de mon âge. Mais je dois tout de même finir en même temps que les jeunes, pour ne retarder personne. Je crois qu’avec l’âge, je canalise moins mes émotions, j’ai du mal à prendre du recul, ça m’empêche de dormir. Et puis j’ai mal à l’estomac, et une sorte de tendinite.» Article complet...
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The United Nations has accused the Sri Lankan army of shelling a civilian safe zone hours after the country's president announced it would stop all heavy artillery attacks.
Its top humanitarian official, John Holmes, who visited holding camps in the north of the island earlier this week, said he had received reliable reports of continued assault despite government assurances that it would stop.
His comments were backed by Western diplomatic sources in Colombo who confirmed reports of continuing shelling in the no-fire zone where an estimated 50,000 civilians are trapped. More...
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"I'm not sure whether the virus was genetically engineered but it's a possibility," Supari said. More...
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"If the Taliban continue to move at this pace, they will soon be knocking at the doors of Islamabad. The Margalla Hills seem to be the only hurdle in their march toward the federal capital," Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a religious party leader, warned last week in a speech to Parliament. He was exaggerating for effect, but the image struck home. More...
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Five years ago, I was wondering how our Indian summer of prosperity would end.
We had been basking in the long Edwardian glow of low prices, cheap labour, domestic servants, prosperity and growth. It didn't actually occur to any of us at the time that a credit crunch would do the trick; a collapse of confidence in our debt-repaying abilities. That was beyond imagining. No, it was going to be something more obvious.
War was the most likely, if you listened to those who relied on historical cycles. In 1714 the western world had fought itself to a standstill. Add in 1814 and 1914, and there were the grounds for a Nostradamus-style paranoia. What would be our equivalent of World War One? More...
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"For the time being, it seems to be airborne poisoning. But it's not confirmed yet what the actual reason is," Fahim said. More...
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According to a source known to former NSA official Wayne Madsen, “A top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, concluded that H1N1 possesses certain transmission “vectors” that suggest that the new flu strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon. More...
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The lead researcher for the new study, carried out in Argentina where Roundup is used on a massive scale in conjunction with GM herbicide-resistant soy, is embryology professor, Dr. Andres Carrasco.
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According to an article in the Argentine press, after news about the study broke, Dr. Carrasco was the victim of an act of intimidation, when four men arrived at his laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine and acted extremely aggressively. Full story...
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Service Pack 2 brings a number of bugfixes while at the same time boosting reliability and performance of core applications. Service Pack 2 also includes the ability to natively save documents in PDF and ODF file formats. More...
Microsoft a aujourd'hui annoncé qu'il publierait le Service Pack 2 d'Office 2007 le 28 avril, conformément à ce qui avait été prévu. L'occasion pour les ingénieurs travaillant sur la suite bureautique de Microsoft de récapituler et de détailler les principaux changements qui seront apportés par cette mise à jour majeure. Suite...
Subrepticement glissée dans le texte au fil des discussions, est apparue la mention de « communication électronique » lors des débats parlementaires. Dans plusieurs endroits du texte qui a été confirmé hier en Commission des lois, on retrouve cette fameuse mention. Suite...
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Pour son dernier né, Microsoft n'a pas hésité à le porter aux nues, suite aux différentes remontées des beta-testeurs des versions précédentes, le résultat est sans appel, Windows 7 s'annonce comme le messie Windowsien tant attendu. Suite...
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If animals were susceptible, "virus circulation could worsen the regional and global situation for public health," the organization said.
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The court has accused the president of crimes against humanity, as well as war crime in Sudanese region. More...
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In northern Italy where former dictator Benito Mussolini comes from the far right Italian LEGA NORD (Northern League) have their political stronghold - and there have been several instances of priests with far right views that have embarrassed the Catholic Church. More...
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Without any doubt, Britain’s got talent! After Susan Boyle, here’s a group called Flawless with a superb dance act. Absolutely scintillating. It was “utterly, utterly electrifying”. “This is one of THE best things I’ve ever seen in my life.” So said the judges. Watch and enjoy…
Après Susan Boyle dans le concours britannique Britain’s Got Talent, voici Flawless, un group de danse absolument époustouflant. Cliquez ici et appréciez…
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A big knife was used to chop off the hands. The trio then put the chopped limbs in a gunny bag and dumped them in a garbage bin here. More...
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The barbaric incident, spurred by age-old superstitions, took place on Sunday at the tribal-populated Adapathar village in Sambalpur district, over 450 km from Bhubaneshwar. The heinous crime came to light after villagers caught the man, Rajesh Hembram, and handed him over to the police. More...
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She said he examined her after suggesting she and her child might be "passing a virus" back and forth. More...
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En effet, RTL vient d'annoncer qu'outre différents objets de valeur, une chose essentielle lui avait été dérobée : son ordinateur portable! Suite...
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It is a scene out of Dante's Inferno. Heroic doctors short of supplies tend to hundreds of shell-shocked wounded, who lie on the ground in open air "hospitals," often caked in dirt and soaked in blood. Parents wail and children wander around dazed. The lucky ones receive emergency care, though sometimes this has meant amputations without anaesthetics. Victims have described shells or rocket propelled grenades landing while they slept.
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The UN estimates that since January more than 6,400 civilians have died and almost 15,000 have been injured. But the figure could be much higher, as the government has refused to allow independent observers into the area "for their own safety." In a rare statement, the director of operations for the International Committee of the Red Cross said last week that he could not recall a situation in recent years as painful and extreme.
You might have expected that governments around the world would have done all they could to alleviate so much pain and suffering. Not a bit of it. The UN security council has done virtually nothing. With their veto power, China and Russia have blocked any concerted council action or pressure. Instead of acting, council members have spent a great deal of time wrangling over whether to hold private briefings on Sri Lanka in the UN's basement – which would make the meeting unofficial – or in regular council rooms. Full story...
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THIS TIME round, show them the middle finger. You may have reason to, as a seasoned voter who’s seen very little change on the ground after the heady speeches, promises, eye candy and campaigning dust fly in your face every five years.
The Election Commission is ensuring your message goes out loud and clear — they are giving your index finger a go-by, and painting your middle finger with indelible ink instead. A Commission official said the change was necessitated by the recently-concluded elections to local bodies in some parts of the country. “Since these voters will still have their index fingers marked, we decided to uniformly mark the middle finger of the left hand,” he said.
Not everyone’s amused, though. In many places, politicians and celebrities smiled and posed for the cameras after casting their vote, but realisation dawned much later. A Pune-based Bollywood celebrity said, “I did not realise it when I posed for the cameras. But when I saw the photo, my pose appeared to be in poor taste.”
In 2005, Australian Greg Chappell, former coach of the Indian cricket team, had triggered a furore when he showed the finger to Sourav Ganguly’s fans at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
All that may be in the past. Pictures of many celebrities and politicians, including Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan and Union power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and their wives showing middle fingers were splashed across newspapers.
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