November, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Police chief: 32 killed after building collapses in India

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NEW DELHI—A four-story building collapsed in a congested neighbourhood in New Delhi Monday, killing at least 32 people and injuring 60 others, a top police official said. Many more people were trapped under debris after […] […]

At least eight dead as fire engulfs highrise apartment in Shanghai

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SHANGHAI—Fire engulfed a highrise apartment building under renovation in China’s business centre of Shanghai on Monday, killing at least eight people, injuring more than 90 and sending some residents racing down scaffolding to escape. A […] […]

Get Happy! UK government to measure well-being

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LONDON—Cheer up Britain! The weather isn’t that bad. British officials said Monday they will start measuring national well-being in addition to gauging more traditional data like income levels and fear of crime. The new plan […] […]

American charged with stealing stuffed birds in UK

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LONDON—British police say they have arrested and charged an American man for stealing hundreds of rare bird skins from a British museum outside London. Detectives investigating the theft of nearly 300 brightly colored stuffed birds […] […]

Coke smugglers buy old jets to fly across Atlantic

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NEW YORK — Federal investigators are piecing together details of an audacious new trend in drug smuggling: South American gangs are buying old jets, stuffing them full of cocaine and flying them across the Atlantic […] […]

Officials defend intimate airport security methods

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WASHINGTON—Officials are defending new anti-terrorism security procedures at the nation’s airports that some travelers complain are overly invasive and intimate. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says in a USA Today opinion piece that body scanners […] […]

Saratoga boy, 9, swims from Alcatraz to San Francisco

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At one point during Daniel Bessonov’s Sunday swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco, the 9-year-old was convinced he wasn’t moving. Numb from the frigid water and fighting hard against the current, the Saratoga resident […] […]

He keeps breaking up and coming back

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Question: I’m a 50-year-old divorced woman with a great teenage son and a wonderful job. I should be really happy, but my boyfriend, 58, is a self-described commitment-phobe who keeps breaking up with me because […] […]

Number of NKorean defectors to SKorea tops 20,000

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SEOUL, South Korea—The number of North Koreans defecting to South Korea has surged in recent years because of economic suffering in the North, with more than 10,000 defections over the past three years, South Korea’s […] […]

Baghdad blasts kill Iraqi policeman, wound 7

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BAGHDAD—Iraqi officials say insurgents have targeted police patrols across Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding seven people. Police and hospital officials say the policeman died when a roadside bomb struck a patrol in downtown Baghdad. […] […]