August, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

UK girl, 7, cycles 965km across the US

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A SEVEN-year-old British girl rode more than 965 kilometres across America to raise money for a cancer charity. Skye Parnell, from Somerset, in southwestern England, pedaled 25 miles a day from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh […] […]

Report: Dozens rescued from plane crash in northeast China

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BEIJING—A Henan Airlines plane with 96 people on board crashed Tuesday in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province and 47 have been rescued, state media reported. The plane crashed in Yichun city at 10:10 p.m. local time, […] […]

Retired con hides $870,000 in toilet

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A UK retiree refused to tell suspicious cops why he hid £500,000 ($870,073) in a toilet cistern, it has been reported. The filthy loot was found after police stopped 70-year-old Peter Wells, who has a […] […]

Swine flu hospital admissions top 500

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Swine flu is continuing to spread in New Zealand, with some areas reporting higher hospital inpatient rates than during last year’s pandemic. So far 10 deaths have been linked to pandemic influenza H1N1 this year, […] […]

Take a deep breath – why the world is running out of helium

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It is the second-lightest element in the Universe, has the lowest boiling-point of any gas and is commonly used through the world to inflate party balloons. But helium is also a non-renewable resource and the […] […]

Scientists hail new drug to fight ebola virus

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Scientists have developed a new kind of “antisense” drug that has produced promising results in laboratory trials involving the ebola and marburg viruses, two of the most lethal known. The drug works by blocking the […] […]

Authorities battle to save city from floodwaters

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Authorities in Pakistan were battling yesterday to save a city in the flood-devastated southern province of Sindh after a mass evacuation as floodwaters threatened to wreak further havoc. The near month-long floods have killed 1600 […] […]

Crackdown on Gypsies backfires

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s tough talk on Gypsies and immigrants has come in for a fierce backlash, drawing fire from the right, the left and the Catholic Church while failing to boost him in the […] […]

Singer taking on Putin and the police

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Hundreds of Russian police surrounded a central Moscow square yesterday as a prominent critic of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin led a protest concert against a road-building scheme that is becoming a focal point for demonstrations […] […]

Jimmy Carter reportedly going to NKorea to free imprisoned American

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WASHINGTON—Former President Jimmy Carter was preparing to leave for North Korea on Tuesday to try to gain the freedom of an American imprisoned for illegally entering the communist nation, U.S. officials said Monday night. North […] […]