More than 200 people were killed and 500,000 left homeless after a cyclone ripped through Bangladesh and eastern India on Monday. Cyclone Aila slammed parts of coastal Bangladesh and eastern India Monday afternoon, triggering tidal surges and flooding that forced hundreds and thousands of people from their homes. Over 500,000 people were placed in temporary [...]

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For the last 20 years, an eighty-three year old British woman kept her mother’s dead body stored away in a freezer in her garage at her South-East London home, officials revealed today. Daulat Irani told officials that she feared authorities would discover her mother had been living in Britain illegally if her death was made [...]

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A well-coordinated attack involving gunmen and an explosives-packed van reduced a police building to rubble in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday. Amid the confusion and the chaos in Pakistan’s second-largest city, various officials offered conflicting casualty counts — with almost all agreeing that at least 23 were killed. [...]

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From Mail OnLine The British mother of two accused of cheating on her estranged husband in Dubai has spent three weeks in a police cell waiting to face trial. Sally Antia, 44, was arrested for breaching the emirate’s strict morality laws on May 2 this year. She pleaded guilty to adultery at her first appearance [...]

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In a wiretap transcript that was released on Tuesday, Senator Roland Burris (D-Ill) promised Robert Blagojevich that he would “personally do something” for then-governor Rod Blagojevich’s campaign fund in exchange for President Obama’s former Senate seat. During the November 13, taped conversation, Burris is heard telling Blagojevich’s brother, Robert “Rob” Blagojevich, “Tell Rod to keep [...]

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