Archive for August 23rd, 2006

Police given plane probe time

popular videosPolice have been given more time to quiz nine suspects held over an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic jets.
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Pair pursue NY subway record

Two men are attempting to break the record for visiting every station on the New York subway system in 24 hours.
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Syria warns over UN troops

Syria’s president has said the stationing of UN troops in the border area of Lebanon would be a hostile action.
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Arrests over family deaths

A 35-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman and three children.
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Cruise and Paramount split

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and Paramount Pictures have ended a 14-year working relationship.
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Obesity epidemic in Britain

British waistbands have been expanding over the past decade with new figures expected later this week.
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Girl ‘found’ after eight years

An Austrian girl who vanished on her way to school more than eight years ago is reported to have been found alive.
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Flood-tolerant California Rice Offering Relief To Poor Farmers Worldwide (Science Daily)

News on Diet and DetoxRice grown anywhere in the world soon could be made completely flood-tolerant because of new research led by UC Riverside’s Julia Bailey-Serres, a professor of genetics. In their paper published in the August issue of The Plant Cell, Bailey-Serres and colleagues report that they have developed a line of California rice […]

Watching your weight (Leeds Today)

We’ll do almost anything to lose a few pounds – or so it seems if the latest craze is to be believed. Curvaceous singer Beyonce revealed she’d gone on a radical diet of drinking only maple syrup-based drinks to lose weight in record time for a film role. But is it a good idea? Katie […]


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