Saturday, October 14, 2006

Tree gets police protection

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Here's my selection of news items for today. I hope you find them interesting :)
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Source: rss.cnn.com

Half of Americans say they re-gift
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Bangkok airport begs sightseers to picnic somewhere else
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Woman "kidnaps" son four times for ransom (Reuters)
Reuters - A Spanish woman staged fake kidnappings of her son four times and got his father to pay her more than a million euros (674,000 pounds) in ransom money, newspaper El Mundo reported on Friday.
Source: news.yahoo.com

Gaza airstrikes kill 7 Palestinians (AP)

Palestinian relatives of Adel Kdaih and his fourteen-year-old son, Suhaib, react in the family house during their funeral in the village of Abbassan near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006. Twenty Palestinians, most of them militants and including two children, have been killed in a stepped-up Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip since Thursday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - Israeli troops killed seven Palestinian gunmen in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday and set up a detention center outside the territory, part of an offensive aimed a stopping rocket fire on Israel during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.



Source: news.yahoo.com

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Landmark atlas fetches record price at auction (Reuters)

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Here's my selection of news items for today. I hope you find them interesting :)
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Reuters - The first atlas ever printed became the most expensive ever sold at auction after it was bought on Tuesday in London for 2.1 million pounds, auction house Sotheby's said.
Source: news.yahoo.com

posted by Don @ Wednesday, October 11, 2006 0 comments