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Guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison sells for $400k
The Beatles Vox guitar, a custom prototype made in 1966 and later given to "Magic Alex" Mardas, a friend of the band, was sold by Julien's Auctions at the Hard Rock Cafe on Times Square.The instrument raised a hundred thousand dollars more than its pre-auction estimate, which was between 200,000 and 300,000 US dollars (130,000-200,000).Harrison can be seen rehearsing with the ...
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Iran hangs alleged U.S. Israeli spies
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency. Sunday's report says Mohammad Heidari, who was accused of providing Mossad with classified information in return of money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, who allegedly gave the CIA intelligence on Iran, were hanged. The report didn't say when ...
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The gene 7 questions
>Editor's note: Dr Susan Domchek is a board-certified medical oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center. She is director of the Mariann and Robert MacDonald Women's Cancer Risk Evaluation Center and executive director of the Basser Research Center for BRCA, a newly founded center focused exclusively on issues related to BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations.(CNN) -- News ...
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Police Officer accidentally killed student
View Photo Associated Press/Sleepy Hollow High School - In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra ...
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North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row
Reuters © North Korean soldiers look at a Chinese tourist boat as they work on the Hwanggumpyong Island, located in the middle of the Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky ...
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Iran Hangs Two For Allegedly Spying For Israel U.S.
Iranian authorities have hanged two men who were convicted of spying for Israel and the United States. ISNA news agency quoted a statement by the Tehran prosecutor's office saying that the two, Mohammad Heydari and Kourosh Ahmadi, had gathered classified information and sold it to Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies. The statement gave no details where the two were hanged. It ...
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Mitzna Inexperienced cabinet cant handle Syria
The Diplomatic-Security Cabinet is inexperienced and will have difficulty dealing with security issues arising from the situation in Syria, Knesset Education Committee chairman Amram Mitzna (Hatnua) said Sunday, in a thinly veiled reference to Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett.Mitzna, a Major-General in reserves, said he is "disturbed and concerned, ...
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S.Korea deploys Israeli missile on border with North
South Korea deployed Israeli precision-guided missiles on Yellow Sea islands bordering North Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday."Dozens of Spike missiles and their launchers have recently been deployed on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands," a South Korean army official ...
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Kate Middleton Boarding school attended by Duchess cancels annual leavers ball after pupils run riot
The headmistress at Kate Middleton’s old school has cancelled its annual leavers’ ball after pupils ran riot through the school grounds during an alcohol-fuelled party, dressed in bright orange Guantanamo-style prison ...
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David Beckham final game Sons join star on pitch to say tearful goodbye to beautiful game as Posh and Harper watch
The 38-year-old was given the honour of captaining Paris St Germain during their final home game of the season against Brest and paid an emotional farewell as he brought the curtain down on a career spanning more than 20 ...
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Rolf Harris 83-year-old goes back on stage in Bristol after sex claims
Entertaining: Rolf Harris made his first public appearance tonight (pictured) since his arrest over sex abuse claims became known. He played to a near sell-out audience at the Bristol ...
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Chinese premier visits India to boost ties
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ...
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Netanyahu takes aim at weapons leakage in Syria
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant ...
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Deaths reported in South Sudan cattle raids
At least 29 people have been killed after cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority group opened fire on members of another minority in a village in Upper Nile state, according to a local official. The attackers crept into Tolleri village in Ulang county in the early hours of Saturday morning and sprayed it with bullets, killing 23 people instantly, Dak Tap Chuol, commissioner for the ...
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Former Tajik Industry Minister Arrested
DUSHANBE -- A Tajik businessman and former industry minister who recently announced he would create a new opposition party has been detained at the Dushanbe airport upon return from a trip abroad. RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports that Zaid Saidov was arrested by agents of Tajikistan's anticorruption agency. The agency said that Saidov is accused of "grave crimes, including ...
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FBI searches Spokane Wash. apartment in ricin letters case
SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ...
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Kuwait deports hundreds for traffic offences
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has deported hundreds of expats for traffic offences in the past month, a report said on Sunday, drawing condemnation from a human rights group.The Al-Anbaa newspaper cited a senior interior ministry official as saying that as many as 1,258 foreigners have been deported for traffic violations since a crackdown began about a month ago.Foreign residents caught driving without a ...
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British father 53 becomes first man in the world to have his prostate removed in bid to beat Angelina Jolie cancer flaw
A British father has made medical history by having his healthy prostate removed after discovering that he carries a defective gene that boosts his risk of cancer, it was reported last ...
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Google tax avoidance row Internet giant accused of scandalous tax avoidance scheme by whistleblower
'Google is cheating British taxpayers out of millionswhat they are doing is just immoral': Web giant accused of running 'scandalous' tax avoidance scheme by ...
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North Korea test-fires another short-range missile Report
SEOU: North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, a Seoul official said. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP without elaborating. On Saturday the communist state fired three short-range missiles off the east coast, apparently as part of a military drill, at ...
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North Korea launches missiles off its east coast according to the South
North Korea has launched three missiles into the sea off its east coast, reheating simmering tensions and prompting mild rebukes from the US and ...
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Winning ticket for $590M Powerball lottery sold in Florida
The winning Powerball numbers are shown after being drawn at the Florida Lottery studio in Tallahassee May 18, 2013. The winning numbers are 22, 10, 13, 14, 52, and the Powerball number is 11. The Powerball jackpot is a record-setting $590.5 million. (REUTERS/Philip ...
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Iran executes two suspected spies
Iranian authorities have executed two men convicted of working for Israeli and US spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency says. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, accused of gathering information for the US Central Intelligence Agency, were hanged at dawn on Sunday, the report ...
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PM We will continue stopping weapons transfer to Hezbollah
Netanyahu responds to 'Sunday Times' report that Syria has missiles aimed at Tel Aviv following alleged IAF strikes in Damascus, saying Israel will continue stop leaks of advanced weaponry to terror ...
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UN chief Ban worried over N.Korea missile launch
MOSCOW - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Sunday over North Korea's launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world powers.Ban, who spoke to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti during a visit to Moscow, called North Korea's launch of three short-range missiles from its east coast on ...
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Mayor Holden’s preparing Baton Rouge for the future.
Baton Rouge’s mayor, Kip Holden, has spent most of his tenure as mayor outside the city on foreign or domestic trips to business conferences or meetings aimed at promoting cultural ties. It’s a strategy that has been successfully employed by some of the world’s greatest leaders.
The Mayor of Baton Rouge, Kip Holden, is going out of his way to increase economic activity in Louisiana’s capital by undertaking a series of what one might call ‘promotional’ trips to cities around the US and the world, promoting Baton Rouge as a serious contender for investment by big businesses. Read more
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