September, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Ex-roommate charged in 1999 ‘suitcase murder’

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It was a bone-chilling discovery on a warm July night: a young woman’s body folded into a suitcase abandoned in a parking lot at London’s Heathrow airport. Now, 11 years after 28-year-old Montrealer Fatima Kama’s […] […]

News – Britney Spears accused of sexual harassment

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LOS ANGELES—A former bodyguard for Britney Spears filed a sexual harassment lawsuit Wednesday accusing the pop star of repeatedly parading herself around in the nude and having sex in front of him. Fernando Flores also […] […]

Massacre investigators found dead

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THE lead investigator into the massacre of 72 migrants in northeast Mexico and another police officer who went missing during the probe have turned up dead, officials said overnight. The bodies of investigator Roberto Jaime […] […]

Muslim sect in raid on prison

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A RADICAL Muslim sect used assault rifles to launch a coordinated sunset raid on a prison in northern Nigeria, freeing more than 100 followers and raising new fears about violence in the oil-rich nation just […] […]

Google unveils faster internet search

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GOOGLE today began delivering internet search results as fast as a person can type. After two days of teasingly tinkering with the Google logo, or “doodle”, atop its home page, the internet giant ended the […] […]

Afghan intelligence officer boasts of ‘torture’ and ability to ‘beat’ prisoners

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OTTAWA—A member of Afghanistan’s notorious intelligence service boasted to Canadian military officers in the spring of last year that his organization was able to “torture” or “beat” prisoners during the course of its investigations, say […] […]

Fidel Castro says Cuban economic model no longer works

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HAVANA—Fidel Castro said Cuba’s economic model no longer works, a U.S.-based journalist reported Wednesday following interviews with the former president last week. Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the Atlantic Monthly magazine, wrote in a blog […] […]

Daughters give women freedom to divorce, new theory says

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Girl children make it easier for a wife to divorce her husband, a psychologist is prosing in a radical new look at an old conundrum. “We’ve known for years that parents of girls divorce more,” […] […]

Ellie: Boyfriend must make changes to save relationship

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Question: I recently learned that my boyfriend of two years cheated on his wife while he was married. He went out West to console his childhood friend about something and the affair lasted about a […] […]

New tragedy for British PM David Cameron as father dies

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BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron’s father died this morning, Downing Street confirmed. “It is with deep regret we can confirm that Ian Cameron died earlier this afternoon. He passed away shortly after the prime minister […] […]