April, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Facebook shut its Lite site after just seven months

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Initially the service was rolled out in the US and India Facebook has shut down its Lite site aimed at users with slow or poor internet connections. The stripped down version of the original ran […] […]

‘8% rise’ in violence on children

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The rise in attacks on young children is not just a statistical blip, experts say The number of young children injured in violent attacks has risen 8% in a year, according to a survey of […] […]

How genes influence obesity, senility – and the effects of olive oil

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A new study has found that virgin olive oil can actually influence certain genes involved in triggering inflammatory processes of the immune system. In 2000 President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair announced in […] […]

Nasty iPad thief takes device, part of finger

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A US man, buying an iPad for his mate in Canada, had part of a finger amputated after a man stole the device. DENVER – A thief’s thirst for a brand new iPad cost a […] […]

Church paedophilia scandal grows in Latin America

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Monsignor Luiz Marques Barbosa [right] is accused of abusing boys as young as 12. SAO PAULO – The detention of an 83-year-old priest in Brazil for allegedly abusing boys as young as 12 has added […] […]

Underworld war feared after killing of crime boss

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Police are considering the possibility that the murder of Carl Williams in prison had a ‘sinister’ motive. CANBERRA – The murder of former Melbourne crime boss Carl Williams has opened a new can of worms […] […]

Gangland killer ‘didn’t have a chance’

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Prison officers reportedly took 25 minutes to find a dying Carl Williams in his top security cell at Barwon Prison. A source told the Herald Sun police and prison bosses were shocked to learn no […] […]

Life in prison for decapitating classmate

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RICHMOND, Virginia – A former Virginia Tech graduate student from China who prosecutors said decapitated a classmate in a campus cafe because she rejected his romantic advances was sentenced to life in prison yesterday. Montgomery […] […]

Iceland: Second, more powerful volcano due to erupt

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Despite grounding 100,000 flights across Europe, battering a beleaguered airline industry, stranding hundreds of thousands of travellers, disrupting schools and businesses, and giving homes under flight paths their first peace and quiet in decades, the […] […]

Child restraints found 30pc safer

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Still from a US traffic safety video. Children strapped into the right kind of car restraint are nearly 30 per cent less likely to die in a car crash than if they are held only […] […]