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Donna Simpson, who wears XXXXXXXL dresses, aims to be the fattest woman in the world. She says sushi is her favourite food, 'but unlike others I can sit and eat 70 big pieces of sushi in one go'....

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One of the many thousands of students appearing for Nepal's tough school-leaving examinations is Chanira Bajracharya, who is also worshipped in Kathmandu's neighbouring Lalitpur city as Kumari, the 'Living Goddess' of Nepal....

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Banned Pakistani all-rounder Rana Naveed-ul-Hassan will play for Australia's Big Bash T20 team Tasmania this season....

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Gold becomes dearer in Nepal from this week to prevent rampant smuggling to India after the Indian government hiked duty on the yellow metal....

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Bill Gertz The CIA and Justice Department are fighting over a secret investigation into a controversial program by legal supporters of Islamist terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay that involved photogr......

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David M. Dickson China's undervalued currency is costing the U.S. economy more than $200 billion per year in lost growth and is reducing American employment by as much as 1 million jobs, two leading ......

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ANALYSIS/OPINION: Gossips report when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with a glass-framed photograph taken in Israel of his recently deceased Zioni......

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PARIS | Nicolas Sarkozy is looking politically lonely in his presidential palace. Voters hit by France's worst recession since World War II are fearing for their jobs, and are worried and conflicte......

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JERUSALEM — Israeli officials said Monday that the U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud ......

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KABUL — NATO says one person was killed in an early morning rocket attack on Bagram Air Field north of the Afghan capital of Kabul. A NATO spokesman said Monday the base received some round......

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LOS ANGELES -- The man convicted of stalking ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shooting nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole facing sentencing in a Los Angeles courtroom.Michael Barrett, a 4......

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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- The Broward Sheriff's Office says deputies shot a dog during a search in Pompano Beach.The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that the incident happened Sunday morning. Accordi......

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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- A toddler who was thrown against a wall earlier this month has been released from an Orlando hospital.Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood said the 2 1/2-year-old boy is "fin......

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SEBRING, Fla. -- A 47-year-old Sebring man is in serious condition following a weekend crash in Highlands County.John Solebello was taken to a Tampa hospital in critical condition after the Saturday ......

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BEIJING -- A Chinese government official has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes a month after a series of steamy diary entries he allegedly wrote appeared online describing casual sex, drink......

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A power failure plunged nearly the entire Chilean population into darkness Sunday night, rattling a country already anxious after last month's 8.8-magnitude quake. The outage struck around nightfall a......

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Thai soldiers stand guard at a military base in Bangkok. More than 100,000 protesters converged in Bangkok on Sunday and gave Thailand's military-backed government an ultimatum to call elections withi......

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President Nicolas Sarkozy has suffered a national beating by voters who took their frustrations over the economic crisis to the ballot box. The French electorate clearly favoured his leftist challeng......

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(CNN) -- With allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests piling up in Germany and Ireland and surfacing in Austria and the Netherlands, Europe appears poised to face church abuse in the broad, wr......

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Bus plunges off bridge in Rajasthan state Most passengers aged 20 to 25 years old Police: Injured taken to hospital Bus fell after hitting vehicle parked on bridge...

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Field recording for the Democratic Republic of Congo radion station Biso na Biso 88FM. Photograph: Virgin Media Like local radio stations the world over, Biso na Biso 88FM has a menu of programming ......

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UMP took a drubbing. His Prime Minister François Fillon remained on message, dismissing the strong showing of the opposition Socialists. “It’s still wide open because no one party can l......

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Millions of Russians have voted in regional and municipal elections, providing a mid-term test of President Medvedev’s promise to loosen the Kremlin’s grip on power. As expected the rulin......

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Election fever is taking hold in the UK with opinion polls pointing to the closest outcome in years. Most political pundits believe May 6th will be the date but the result is likely to be a hung parli......

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Singer Courtney Love confessed she made a mistake blaming ex-boyfriend Edward Norton for a bad financial investment that allegedly cost her $300,000....

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British singer Cheryl Cole's estranged footballer husband Ashley Cole was told to leave her house when he flew to Britain for their first face-to-face meeting after allegedly cheating on her with a string of women....

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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen Monday launched her own range of eco-friendly skincare products....

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'Hanna Montana' star Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus have invited the families of US troops to take part in the filming of a concert scene for the show....

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At least seven people were killed and 13 wounded Monday in a car bomb explosion in Iraq's western Anbar province, police said....

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Acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron has confirmed that he'll bring the 3D version of 'Titanic' on the big screen by 2012....

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People stand within the US consulate compound in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday, March 14, 2010. A US consulate employee and her husband were shot to death Saturday in their car, where their baby was f......

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Jamie Reynolds, a 63-year-old retiree who lives in the El Pescador area, watched the sun set. Reynolds, like four out of five of the retiree-study respondents, owns his home in Mexico....

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Whale researchers returned from Antarctic waters Monday after a six-week expedition that they said proved Japan's annual kill of whales for scientific purposes is unnec......

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WASHINGTON - The House's chief Democratic head-counter said yesterday that he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Obama's health-care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as t......

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An Afghan police officer stands near shops damaged in a blast in Kandahar. Dozens were killedin a series of bombings that rocked the city, where NATO is planning an offensive....

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COLUMBIA, Mo. - Doctors, nurses, and other health-care workers are tapping into their inner Tolstoys to better connect with patients. With increasing regularity, they're meeting in monthly book clubs......

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BEIJING - China sought yesterday to deflate rising pressure from the United States and other powers over Beijing's economic policies and growing assertiveness in world affairs, with its prime minister......

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WASHINGTON - Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis. Law enforceme......

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JERUSALEM - Israel's prime minister publicly expressed regret yesterday for a crisis with the United States over plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem, even as U.S. officials played ......

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SAN DIEGO - Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government could not replicate the runaway speeding reported by a Prius owner who said his car's accelerator stuck as he drove on a Ca......

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BAGHDAD - Partial election results released yesterday for all of Iraq's 18 provinces showed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition ahead of formidable rivals, both secular and religious, in a tigh......

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ATLANTA - Key results from a landmark federal study provided disappointing news for diabetics yesterday: Adding drugs to drive blood pressure and blood-fats lower than current targets did not prevent ......

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WASHINGTON - The senator trying to rewrite the nation's financial-industry rules is dropping plans to create a stand-alone agency to protect consumers on financial matters and to give a single regulat......

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MIAMI -- Those who work with seniors say they're seeing growth in the number of people in their 60s, 70s and 80s coming out of the closet as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.Social scientists ha......

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Authorities say two men were killed in Franklin County when a tree fell on their Toyota Prius.The Florida Highway Patrol says 57-year-old David T. Hollister and 22-year-old Thoma......

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ADELAIDE, Australia -- A government routine of acknowledging Australia's indigenous people was criticized as mere political correctness Monday by the federal opposition leader, offending some Aborigi......

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SEOUL, South Korea -- An American diplomat based in South Korea fled to the Philippines after facing charges that he swindled a local woman out of nearly $200,000, police in the southern city of Busa......

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President Nicolas Sarkozy has suffered a national beating by voters who took their frustrations over the economic crisis to the ballot box.The French electorate clearly favoured his leftist challenger......

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Police in Australia have charged a 92-year-old woman with killing her 98-year-old husband. Clare Tang is due to appear in court on Tuesday on a murder charge after her husband was found dead in their ......

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Nepal wants to paint Mount Everest pink with a campaign urging gay honeymooners to take a trek through the Himalayas.There are also plans to host the world's highest same-sex "weddings" at Everest bas......

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Pressure has been mounting on the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland to resign over revelations he never reported complaints against a paedophile priest to authorities. Catholic Primate Card......

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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A power failure plunged nearly the entire Chilean population into darkness Sunday night, rattling a country already anxious after last month's 8.8-magnitude...

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A British couple has been barred from having sex from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. after a complaint from a neighbour's child. Alan and Fiona Hay responded saying their sex sessions only last five minutes as Alan suffers from asthma, The Sun reported Monday....

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Experts from various fields have advised Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who embarks on her Beijing visit Wednesday, to 'balance' ties with larger neighbours India and China....

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TV character Homer Simpson would have loved this job. A company in Britain is looking for a worker who has to do nothing, except eat - and the pay will be nearly 24,000 pounds a year....

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The Thai government has rejected an ultimatum by tens of thousands of provincial protesters to dissolve parliament and call for new elections by mid-Monday....

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Dozens of people wearing bathing suits, or nothing at all, rode bicycles through the streets of Lima to promote the use of non-motorised transportation as an alternative to the automobile as well as to defend the environment in Peru....

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Sikhs in Malaysia observed a low key New Year, as per the Nanakshahi calendar named after the founder of the faith Guru Nanak....

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Reina, a female jaguar who lives at the Santa Fe Zoo in the northwestern Colombian city of Medellin, underwent an operation on her canine teeth because they showed damage that was preventing her from eating properly....

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The security team aboard the Txori Argi, a Spanish fishing boat, have fought off a group of pirates who attacked the vessel off the Seychelles Islands, but no one was injured in the incident, the shipowner said....

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The Frei Caneca Penitentiary Complex, Brazil's oldest prison built in 1850, has been demolished to make way for the construction of 2,500 public housing units, the official Agencia Brasil news agency reported....

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England's David Beckham is set to miss this summer's World Cup finals after suffering a serious Achilles injury Sunday....

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Jorge Ramirez seemed like an amiable technician-turned cab owner who might be meeting an Indian for the first time in his life. 'From India?' he asked and before I could answer yes, he added, 'Shah Rukh Khan?' Before I could answer even that, he popped in a CD in his...

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The backlash from Taliban attacks on places from Kashmir to Karachi has led to greater Pakistani cooperation with the US in the Afghanistan war, says the US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan....

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Canadian researchers have decoded opium poppy which will lead to cheaper and mass production of the current costly pain killers. Currently, the morphine is the most used painkiller around the world....

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India and the US hope to significantly expand bilateral cooperation in critical areas like defence/strategic trade, civil nuclear cooperation, biotechnology, nano-technology and civil aviation after two-day talks on high technology starting here Monday....

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Tens of thousands of protesters launched a car convoy on the Thai government's peace-keeping command headquarters in Bangkok in an effort to force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve parliament and call for new elections....

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A controversial cartoon in a Montreal newspaper at the weekend has further fuelled the niqab controversy and angered Muslims in Canada....

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Drug violence in Western Mexico has led to the deaths of three people who worked within the walls of the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez....

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Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has complimented a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a drama which implied that the country was being invaded....

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Helicopter gunships belonging to Pakistan have pounded Taliban hideouts in the north-western tribal district, killing at least 13 militants....

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A Christian maid has allegedly been burned alive to prevent her from reporting a rape in the Pakistani province of Punjab....

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In a plan being devised by the UK government, the country’s House of Lords could be abolished....

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A candidate for governor in Atlanta, Georgia has been arrested for allegedly threatening singer Elton John....

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Director Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland' was the top film in the US for a second weekend in a row, according to sales estimates released Sunday....

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At least two senior members of Al Qaeda were killed in an airstrike by the Yemeni Air Force in a remote village in the south of the Arab country late Sunday, the Defence Ministry said....

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South African President Jacob Zuma has expressed codolence over the death of anti-apartheid stalwart Fatima Meer....

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Rescuers have found 33 bodies in southern Kazakhstan, where heavy rains swept away two dams last week, causing massive flooding, authorities said....

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The Israeli prime minister was strongly rebuked on Friday by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who angrily questioned him on Israel's refusal to back down on settlement expansion....

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A new synagogue was opened Sunday in the north-western German town of Herford, more than 70 years after the old synagogue was destroyed under Nazi rule....

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Pakistani fighter jets pounded several Taliban hideouts Sunday, killing 16 militants and injuring several more in north-western tribal region near Afghan border, security officials said....

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New results from Iraq's elections announced Sunday showed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition ahead in the southern province of Basra, and his top rival leading in the western province of al-Anbar....

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European and Arab parliamentarians ended a two-day meeting Sunday by urging Israel to freeze all settlement activity in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which they said is wrecking trust with the Palestinians and 'jeopardising' a two-state solution....

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Unlucky in love so far, David Schwimmer's relationship this time with his British girlfriend has turned serious as the former 'Friends' star is reportedly planning to propose....

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English singer Robbie Williams has revealed that he suffers from stage fright....

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Reality star Heidi Montag is set to make her big screen debut in Hollywood funnyman Adam Sandler's upcoming comedy 'Just Go With It'....

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Harry Potter star Emma Watson is single again after reportedly splitting from her longtime boyfriend....

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Hollywood star Andy Garcia couldn't bring himself to watch his daughter stripping off and pole dancing on the set of their new movie, reveals the daughter....

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Australian skipper Ricky Ponting Sunday said Michael Clarke is a 'certain starter' for the first Test against New Zealand in Wellington Friday....

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Reality TV star Sharon Osbourne wants singer husband Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography made into a film with actress Carey Mulligan playing her role....

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Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz is reportedly excited about working with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake in the new film 'Bad Teacher'....

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Tehran has accused the United States of having launched a 'cyber war' against Iran, state television network IRIB reported Sunday....

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Israeli security forces arrested a Hamas military leader suspected of heading cells responsible for the murders of 70 Israeli civilians during the Palestinian uprising which broke out in 2000, the Israeli military spokesman said Sunday....

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Oscar-nominated actor John Malkovich will be seen portraying the role of real life Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger on stage in London next year....

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Demi Lovato has given hints that she is dating actor Joe Jones and the 'Sonny With a Chance' star describes him as a 'incredible' and 'perfect' guy....

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Israel appears surprised by a rebuke from the US administration about its new settlement expansion....

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In Canada, three people are dead while others are still buried under piles of snow, after an avalanche hit a snowmobile competition near Revelstoke, British Columbia....

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A representative for Justin Timberlake has once again rubbished reports that the popstar and his actress girlfriend Jessica Biel have split....

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A leading Georgian opposition party Sunday said it was preparing a lawsuit against a television channel over a fake news report about a supposed Russian invasion and murder of President Mikheil Saakashvili....

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Men do far more household work than they are given credit for, reveals a new study....

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