A pensioner’s massive collection of objects may have led to his death when fire broke out at his Prestatyn home, and inquest is told.
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24 killed in South Africa bus crash
A bus carrying members of a church group crashed in South Africa’s Western Cape province on Friday, killing 24 of the people aboard, police said.
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13 killed in firework truck explosion
A truck carrying fireworks to a religious procession exploded Friday in the central Mexican city of Nativitas, killing at least 11 people and injuring 70 others, a Tlaxcala state official told CNN affiliate FOROtv.
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Murkowski takes heat as Alaska tribes get left out of new domestic violence law
Across the nation, Indian tribes cheered when President Barack Obama signed a new Violence Against Women Act last week, expanding the power of tribal courts to try non-Indians for crimes…
Snoop Lion Chooses Peace Over Pimping in Reincarnated
Almost the entire time he’s on screen in the new documentary Reincarnated, Snoop is grinning ear-to-ear. And it’s not just the weed.
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The long journey home for May, the missing Iditarod sled dog
An Iditarod sled dog missing for days traveled hundreds of miles back down the trail, through the Alaska Range toward home — and was found by snowmachiners on Wednesday night.
U.S. Military Neglects Huge Data Trove of Iraq War: The Iraqis Themselves
Iraq’s tribal sheikhs were more important to the Iraq war than the U.S. military suspected. That’s just one lesson of Iraq that the U.S. neglects by ignoring how Iraqis lived through the grueling war.
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BP appeals oil spill settlement claims
BP appealed Friday for a halt to settlements to those affected by the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, because of what it says are “hundreds of millions of dollars, and what could reach billions of dollars, in awards to claims asserting fictitious losses.”
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Did Microsoft Fry Its Cloud With an Air-Conditioner Update?
One of the great things about cloud computing is that you don?t have to worry about bumpy old software updates, except when they take down the entire cloud. That?s what happened on Tuesday when Microsoft?s Hotmail, Outlook.com and Skydrive sites went down for some.
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Incinerator plan on public display
Drop-in sessions are organised by the North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Project to show residents how a planned incinerator would work.
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