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Indian student charged for killing 81-year-old man in Florida after driving Cadillac like a bullet at 100mph, attorney asks court to allow him to return to Columbia University
indian student Akash Das was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide (Photo: WPBF) Indian student Akash Das was behind the…
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Quote of the day by Peter Thiel: ‘First mover advantage is a trap, it’s much better to be the last mover’
Quote of the day by Peter Thiel. PayPal founder Peter Thiel contradicted the well-known business lesson that being the first…
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Quote of the day by Michael Bloomberg: ‘I’m not smarter than anybody else but I can outwork you’, and a controversial career advice
Quote of the day by Michael Bloomberg. In a professional world caught between working smart and working hard, Michael Bloomberg…
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Solar eclipse craze grips UK: Brits stuck in hours-long queues as glasses fly off shelves
Brits queue for hours as glasses sell out. Hundreds of people across the UK are scrambling to get certified solar…
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‘You are loved’: US cop hugs man battling mental health crisis, talks him out of jumping off bridge
US cop hugs man battling mental health crisis. A Metro Nashville police lieutenant is being credited with saving a man’s…
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Quote of the day by Agatha Christie: “If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot…” – a sharp lesson on risk, responsibility and thinking before you act | World News
Quote of the day by Agatha Christie (Image: Wikipedia) Life often involves genuine risk, but not every risk is actually…
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Rama Duwaji: Will NYPD cops go to Syria, Lebanon with Zohran Mamdani’s wife? Row over Rama Duwaji’s travel plan to meet family
NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji is scheduled to visit Syria and Lebanon in September, New York Post reported. NYC mayor…
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Congo’s Ebola death toll crosses 2,000 as country battles fastest-growing outbreak
A health worker in protective gear looks on at an Ebola treatment centre. (Photo: AP) Congo’s confirmed Ebola death toll…
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British couple jailed in Iran over spying charges end 3-month hunger strike, family demands release
British couple Craig and Lindsay Foreman. British couple Craig and Lindsay Foreman, jailed in Iran on espionage charges they deny,…
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In 1986, Lake Nyos released a deadly carbon dioxide cloud that killed 1,746 people, but the gas was still building up 30 years later | World News
Lake Nyos looks deceptively ordinary in photographs. It sits in a volcanic landscape in north-western Cameroon, surrounded by steep green…
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