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Two arrested after UK fighter jets escort Pakistani plane
British police arrested two men on a Pakistan International Airlines plane after British fighter jets were scrambled to escort it to a London airport on Friday, officials ...
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Facebook phone not coming to Europe
Facebook Home which replaces the standard Android screens with its own social media interface. Home has been available for download to other Android devices too but hasn't proved popular with users. UK mobile ...
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British fighter jets scrambled after incident on Pakistan International Airways flight
United Kingdom Two men have been arrested after British fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Pakistan International Airways flight to an Essex airport after an on-board incident on Friday.British police arrested the men on suspicion of "endangerment of an aircraft".The plane, which was carrying 297 passengers en route from Lahore to Manchester, was diverted to Stansted Airport in ...
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UK arrests 2 men over incident with Pakistan plane
Lahore, Pakistan , was originally supposed to have landed in Manchester. Essex Police said that two men have been arrested and removed from the plane, which landed safely and was on an isolated runway at Stansted Airport. Britain's Ministry of Defense confirmed that a Typhoon jet was scrambled to investigate ...
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Suicide blast rocks central Kabul
Police said it was a suicide bombing. It was followed by a gun battle which was still continuing more than an hour later.An Associated Press cameraman who witnessed thes blast said it was near a hospital for the National Security Directorate, the state intelligence service.He said the blast collapsed a building wall, but was not clear if there were any casualties. Police quickly cordoned off the ...
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William Hague Solution to Middle East conflict is slipping away
William Hague has warned the Israelis and Palestinians that the prospect of a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict is slipping away and that if the latest US-sponsored push for renewed talks is not grasped, the region faces a bleak ...
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World stock markets to grind higher
"This is a classic holiday market reversal," said Neil Shah, a director at London's Edison Investment. When investors and traders return to their desks after the long weekend in the U.S. and the U.K., stocks would continue moving higher, he said. Japan, where the ...
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Five climbers missing on Mount Kanchenjunga worlds 3rd highest peak
KATHMANDU, Nepal - A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain. The five disappeared Monday on Mount Kanchenjunga, and bad weather was preventing a rescue helicopter from reaching the base camp. Mountaineering Department official Dipendra Poudel said Friday the climbers were descending from the summit when they were believed to ...
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Two held after Pakistan flight diverted
>Editor's note: Are you there? Share your photos and videos. London (CNN) -- Police arrested two men Friday on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after a flight from Pakistan to the United Kingdom was diverted to Stansted Airport, outside of London. A UK fighter jet was scrambled to escort the Pakistan International Airlines flight as it was diverted from northwestern England's Manchester ...
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Spains Princess Cristina faces new tax probe charge
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish judge has opened an investigation into Princess Cristina's tax returns after an earlier charge of being an accomplice in an embezzlement case against her husband was ...
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U.K. scrambles jet to investigate civilian plane
LONDON British fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Pakistani passenger plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Lahore to England after an incident on board, British officials said Friday. Essex Police boarded the plane at Stansted and arrested two men "on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft," according to a statement from the police, which did not elaborate. Britain's ...
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World Stocks Lower After Big Sell-Off
World stocks edged lower on Friday, a day after markets around the world dropped sharply on concerns global growth is slowing and the Federal Reserve could start scaling back its monetary stimulus. Japan's Nikkei, which had led the previous day's losses with a plunge of over 7 percent, seesawed throughout Friday before closing 0.9 percent higher at 14,612.45. In Europe, stocks ...
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13 Recipes to Make on the Grill for Memorial Day
Nothing says summer like a delicious meal on the grill. From steaks to sides and even desserts, you can grill your entire meal outside with these recipes. So fire up the grill this weekend and enjoy ...
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Watch Boy Scouts to Admit Openly Gay Members
All right, we'll turn now to the historic decision by the boy scouts of america. For the first time in its long history the organization will now admit openly gay scouts. The controversial ...
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Nahyan inaugurates Burjeels first 1st international conference
WAM Abu Dhabi, May 24th, 2013 (WAM) -- Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, inaugurated today the 1st international conference on minimally invasive surgery and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). The two-day conference titled ?Tomorrow is Already Today' and hosted by Burjeel Hospital in collaboration with ...
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Progress made in international child custody disputes
child custody disputes can often reach across Texas borders and sometimes even international borders. A number of international child custody disputes have involved U.S. citizens and citizens of Japan. As the Washington Post noted recently, there has been pressure on Japan to join the international child custody treaty to "address concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from ...
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One block 2 tornadoes
>Editor's note: John D. Sutter is the human rights columnist for CNN Opinion. Because he is from Oklahoma City, he was dispatched there for this story. Follow him on Twitter -- @jdsutter -- for continued updates about the ...
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Police Suicide bomb hits heart of Afghan capital
A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police ...
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Breaking RAF fighter jet escorts Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that an RAF Typhoon fighter jet has escorted a diverted Pakistan International Airlines flight from Manchester to Stansted ...
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UPDATE 1-Turkey bans alcohol advertising and curbs sales
Fri May 24, 2013 9:45am EDT * PM says ban is to protect youth from bad habits * Critics say ban is sign of creeping Islamic influence * Turkish brewers see shares fall * Diageo "very saddened" by new legislation By Ozge Ozbilgin ANKARA, May 24 (Reuters) - Turkey banned alcohol advertising and tightened restrictions on its sale on Friday, drawing criticism from secular Turks as well as ...
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Death toll from Guinea opposition march rises to four
CONAKRY (Reuters) - The official death toll from Thursday's clashes between Guinean opposition protesters and police and government supporters rose to four on Friday, meaning at least 22 people have now been killed in unrest since ...
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London investigators grapple with unprecedented gruesome terror tactics
(CBS News) New details have emerged regarding the background and tactics allegedly used by the two men accused of savagely murdering British soldier Lee Rigby in London on Wednesday. According to British media reports, Michael Adebolajo, 28, was a British citizen, born in Nigeria, raised as a Christian, and is believed to have converted to Islam over the course of the last decade. He and ...
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Why Jolies cancer test costs so much
>Editor's note: Gayle Sulik is a medical sociologist, founder of the Breast Cancer Consortium and author of "Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health. " Follow her on Twitter: @pinkribbonblues(CNN) -- Angelina Jolie, when writing about her preventive double mastectomy, did not discuss how much her surgeries cost, but she did mention that many women would not be ...
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Watch Emergency Landing in London Caught on Tape
We're going to turn to the emergency landing for a british airways jumbo jet at one of the world's busiest airports. Smoke was seen pouring out of one of the engines before the jet landed as ...
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Watch Arias Jury Hung in Penalty Phase
bombshell in the jodi arias trial. The jury deadlocked over her fate after deliberating for three days and 13 hours. We'll talk exclusively to the jury foreman in just a moment. First here's ...
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Thorne Miniature Rooms go fictional
If you live in Chicago and do not know about the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, then you must have been living under the proverbial rock before you came across this article.
The Thorne rooms are one of the most famous museum exhibits in the city. They are a collection of 68 rooms contained within glass boxes and are notable because each room is constructed at a 1-inch to 1-foot scale and all 68 rooms together display a range of historical periods from various cultures. Read more
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