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An 89-Year-Old British Veteran Escaped His Nursing Home To Attend D-Day...
An 89-year-old Second World War veteran told he could not attend today’s D-Day events in France went AWOL from his care home and was found 12 hours later in Normandy with comrades police have...
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The Gatsby Delusion: The 'American Dream' Is Totally Misunderstood
F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, the emblematic novel of 'the American dream’, is as misunderstood as that clichéd phraseIf America is a land of fables, then the “American dream” is supposed to be one...
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UK: 25% Of Criminals Watched By GCHQ Have Dropped Off The Grid Post-Snowden
Security services have lost the ability to track a quarter of the criminals previously being monitored in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelationsA quarter of the criminals being tracked by British...
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5 US Special Forces Killed By 'Friendly Fire' Airstrike In Afghanistan
Five U.S. Special Operations soldiers were killed when a coalition airstrike accidentally struck their position in southern Afghanistan on Monday night,Azam Ahmed of The New York Times reports.The...
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A Facebook Executive And A Venture Capitalist Got Into A Heated Public...
Ongoing tensions over how to handle social inequality in San Francisco has sparked a rare outburst among venture capitalists.Facebook executive-turned-venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya called for...
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Scientists Are A Key Step Closer To Curing Blind People
Scientists have grown human retina from stem cells in an experiment which will give hope to hundreds of thousands of patients with macular degeneration.The breakthrough, which involved growing tissue...
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'Spornosexual' Is The New Metrosexual
20 years ago, Mark Simpson coined the term 'metrosexual'. But now a new, more extreme, sex- and body-obsessed version has emerged, he explainsIn a development which will probably have him running to...
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Scientists Create A Cancer Drug That Helps The Body Fight The Disease Naturally
A pill which boosts the body’s natural defences could help fight off all cancers and stop them ever returning, scientists believe.‘Delta-inhibitors’ were already known to help leukemia patients, but...
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Standing In Meetings Makes Workers More Creative
Sitting for long periods of time at the office is known to cause bad backs and health problems, but it may also be stifling creativity, researchers believe.Although chairs may seem like a good idea in...
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This Blue Diamond Might Be The Most Expensive Mineral Ever Found
An “exceptional” 122.5 carat blue diamond which could be the most valuable ever found has been unearthed at a South African mine owned by a London-based company.The diamond is the largest found since...
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Great Grandson Of John D. Rockefeller Dies In Plane Crash
A son of the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family has died after the small plane he was piloting crashed just outside New York.Dr Richard Rockefeller, 65, was flying solo in his single-engine...
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Chinese Workers Are Buying Fake Sick Notes So They Can Watch The World Cup
Chinese fraudsters are doing a roaring trade in fake sick notes designed to help football fans skip work during this month’s World Cup.The 11-hour time difference between China and host nation Brazil...
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The Inspiration For Gordon Gekko Is Now A Billionaire
The boss of Blackstone’s hedge fund business, who was supposedly the inspiration for Gordon Gekko in the iconic film Wall Street, has become a billionaire on the back of a surge in the private equity...
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A Bachelor Party In New Mexico Found A 3 Million-Year-Old Elephant Skull
A group of friends on a stag do made an unlikely discovery while out walking on a beach in New Mexico - a perfectly preserved three-million-year-old elephant skull.The party was on a hike in Elephant...
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Arsonists Allegedly Torch $850,000 Worth Of Supercars Owned By 'Rich Kid Of...
A self-styled "rich kid of Instagram" who boasted on social media about driving expensive cars has seen four vehicles he used, worth more than £500,000 ($850,000), destroyed in arson attacks in just...
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The World's First Phone-Charging Pants Are Here
The world’s first pair of wireless mobile-charging trousers will be unveiled on Tuesday as part of a new collaboration between British fashion designer Adrien Sauvage and Microsoft.The project started...
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Kim Jong-Un Mans A Soviet Submarine That's Been Obsolete Since 1961 [PHOTOS]
The admirals of the Soviet Union declared North Korea’s prize submarine to be obsolete back in 1961, and Western experts stubbornly point out its inability to sink enemy vessels.But Kim Jong-un, the...
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An Eccentric Chinese Tycoon Is Throwing A $1 Million 'Picnic' For New York's...
An eccentric Chinese billionaire has announced plans to invite 1,000 impoverished Americans for a slap-up meal in Central Park in a bid to show fellow tycoons there is more to life than “luxury goods,...
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Scientists Find The 'Achilles Heel' Of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
The global threat of antibiotic resistance could finally be tackled after British scientists discovered a chink in the armour of deadly bacteria.Health experts have warned that within 20 years even...
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The 10 Most Impressive US Military Technologies Right Now
As a laser weapon capable of shooting down enemy drones is developed by the US military, we look at other weird gizmos and gadgets soon to be rolled out by the US armyA laser weapon capable of shooting...
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