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Residents Rescued From Homes As Floods Hit Cornwall.

A helicopter rescue operation is underway in Cornwall as the county was hit by flash floods overnight with further downpours expected. The torrential rain has imprisoned many residents in homes and cars and helicopters have been drafted in to help with... Read >
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Facebook Launches 'Next Generation Of Email'

The founder and chief of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has today launched the social network’s new messaging service. Claiming that the email system we are all familiar with is “too slow and formal”, Zuckerberg’s new messaging service aims to effectively ... Read >
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Prince William and Kate Middleton Are Engaged and Will Marry In 2011.

Today it has been confirmed by Clarence House that Prince William and Kate Middleton are officially engaged and will marry next year. The announcement came amid engagement speculation following a visit by Kate’s parents to the Queen’s Scottish estate ... Read >
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Qantas 747 Forced To Turn Back To Sydney After Cockpit Fills With Smoke.

Things are looking bad for Qantas this morning when one of its Boeing 747s was forced to turn back after the cockpit filled with smoke. The smoke meant that pilots on the flight from Sydney to Buenos Aires were forced to don oxygen masks and dump fuel... Read >
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British Woman Murdered On Honeymoon In South Africa.

The British wife of a millionaire businessman was tragically killed on their honeymoon in South Africa as they were returning home by taxi at around 11pm on Saturday night. Anni Dewani, 28, and her husband of two weeks Shrien Dewani, 30, had been out ... Read >
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The Chandler’s Released By Somali Pirates.

Exhausted but otherwise unharmed, Paul and Rachel Chandler will today return home after being freed in return for a £625,000 ransom. The elated British yacht couple endured a 388-day ordeal in the hands of Somali pirates which was brought to an end ye... Read >
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The Queen's Facebook Page Hijacked By Anti-Royalists.

The Queen’s new Facebook page has attracted lots of attention, and not all of it good. Users have been flocking to the Queen’s new Facebook page to post abusive messages, namely about the Duchess of Cornwall. The Queen’s Facebook page- The British Mon... Read >
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Aung San Suu Kyi On The Brink Of Freedom After 15 Years Of House Arrest.

It was reported that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be released on Friday but an impasse in negotiations with Burmese junta means she will spend an extra night under house arrest. The 65 year old Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 15 of the last ... Read >
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NASA Scientists Left Scratching Their Heads After Discovering Two Giant Bubbles.

Stretching more than half the size of the visible sky and as large as the Milky Way, you’d think it would be hard to miss two giant gas bubbles. The two vast structures discovered in our galaxy have left scientists baffled as to how they got there. Th... Read >
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Facebook Launches New Mobile Web Experience.

Today Facebook completely overhauled its mobile web experience. Place Deals is a new service that allows American users to check in to shops and take advantage of some great ‘deals.’ Rumours of the launch of a Facebook phone were well and truly quashe... Read >
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Could This Be The End Of The Common Cold?

As winter well and truly sets in we are all at risk of contracting the common cold. However, scientists believe they might have finally found the cure for cold. Could this be the end of runny noses, sore throats and pounding headaches? Some of us are ... Read >
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Al-Quaida Member Arrested Over UK Bomb Plot.

The Home Secretary, Theresa May revealed today that a member of the group behind last week’s cargo bomb plot was planning an attack in Britain. The man is thought to be an “associate” of the terrorist group al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and... Read >
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A Blow For Barack Obama At The Mid-term Elections.

Today Barack Obama is waking up the reality of one of the worst Democratic defeats in recent history. Voters swept the Republicans to a historic victory in the U.S mid-term elections capturing the House of Representatives and a handful of Senate seats as ... Read >
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Retinal Implant Allows The Blind To See.

Ground-breaking scientific research has led to the production of a retinal implant that has allowed three blind patients to partially regain their sight. For the first time since the patients lost their sight to an inherited disease, the implant has enabl... Read >
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Google Launches New Place Search.

Local information just got even more local. On October 28th 2010, Google launched a brand new feature ‘Place Search’ aimed at integrating local business listings directly into search results. From this day onwards, users can now use this standalone se... Read >
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