- After fighting keeps investigators at bay for 4 days, team finally finds new route through warzone to help examine debris, look for remains
- Hundreds of children head to a summer camp with a difference.
- GRAPHIC FOOTAGE: A journalist on the scene, hit by shrapnel, keeps his camera rolling.
- While Europe's financial sanctions will create the most immediate squeeze on Russia, it is the crack-down on the arms trade that has triggered debate. Will Moscow care?
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldHONOLULU (AP) — Remains of a saint known for caring for exiled leprosy patients have been returned to Hawaii.
- The sixth tallest building in the world is being built in Seoul, South Korea but a strange geological phenomenon is threatening the site, leaving the construction team baffled as they get closer to finishing it. The AP reports that a bun...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Infowars » World NewsDoctors are struggling to cope with the overwhelming pressure.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing international alarm over a rising civilian death toll in Gaza, said on Thursday he would not accept any ceasefire that stopped Israel completing the destruction of militants' infiltration...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldA quarter of Gaza’s citizens have been displaced from their homes as Israel’s ongoing offensive against Hamas continues.
- Think of last night's Argentine default as an explosion . Now even 24 hours later the dust has yet to clear, and what will remain when it does is the stuff of questions and rumors —a heady mix of speculation based on a history that...
- Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, the last living crew member of the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II, died Monday at his Georgia home at the age of 93, reports The New York Times . ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Business InsiderStocks have opened the final trading day of the month in the red. The Dow is down 185 points, the S&P 500 is down 26 points, and the Nasdaq is down 73 points. Each of the major indices is down more than 1%, with the Nasdaq down 1.6%....
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesChicago PMI decelerated sharply and unexpectedly in July, according to the Chicago business barometer released Thursday.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Athletics acquired left-hander Jon Lester along with outfielder Jonny Gomes from the Boston Red Sox for slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes before Thursday's trade deadline, a person with knowledge of t...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Business Insider"Everyone sleeps." It's as simple as that, says James Proud, the founder and CEO of Hello Inc., when asked about why his company decided to create the Sense sleep tracker. The Sense blew past its Kickstarter goal to hit the $1 mill...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Business InsiderIn November 2005, lawyer-turned-journalist Harvey Levin debuted his celebrity news website, TMZ . While the letters "TMZ" have become a part of the common lexicon, few know what it actually stands for. "TMZ" is sh...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from InternationalSen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Congress should include language banning President Obama from issuing executive orders on immigration to any bill dealing with the influx of child immigrants.The Senate is considering an emergency spendin...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Business InsiderArgentina's stock market is tanking after the country last night said it would voluntarily default on $1.3 billion worth of debt owed to a group of hedge funds. Shortly after opening for trade, the Merval index was down 8.5%. Today's plu...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from World News & AnalysisBanking giant HSBC was accused of racism this week after it moved to close the accounts of several Muslim organizations across the UK.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesFour ways to profit from Harry Potter.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's Republican candidate for governor says he spent a week living as a homeless person in search of a job to test Gov. Jerry Brown's claim that the state is making a comeback after the economic downturn.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesReactions to earnings, along with economic concerns are sending the tech sector into the red.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from NYT > WorldThe corruption case against a former deputy director of the notoriously grim Beijing Zoo has raised the most unlikely questions.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalIsraelis and Palestinians are Tweeting their different versions of the conflict.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from CNN.comWorld No. 2 Li Na has pulled out of next month's U.S. Open with a knee injury.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Business InsiderWhen iOS 8 debuts this fall, iPhone owners can rest assured that logging into apps and websites will be easier than ever before. Password management platform 1Password just previewed how its system will work with iOS apps in the near fut...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Business InsiderAs visas for Afghan interpreters were set to run out by the end of July , the House of Representatives passed a bill that will provide an additional 1,000 emergency visas for Afghan translators who served alongside American soldiers. Ear...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from CNN.comWhen celebrating an important anniversary, it's always good to look your best. At least that's theory for a Spanish football team's preseason tuxedo kit which celebrates the club's 90th year of existence.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesYum Brands drops on problems in China and Whole Foods delivers weak sales.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesAlong with its towering monuments to socialism and sprawling plazas for military parades, North Korea's showcase capital is a city of parks.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldDUBLIN (AP) — Irish betting company Paddy Power says it is notifying hundreds of thousands of customers that most of their profile information was stolen in 2010, but hackers did not gain their credit card details or log-in passwords.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A key witness in the corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell testified that he made a mistake when he bought a Rolex watch for the governor at the first lady's request.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Business InsiderApple’s partnership with Shazam is finally benefiting Mac users. Though Apple’s personal assistant Siri will now support Shazam’s music identification software in iOS 8, Mac users can enjoy Shazam’s features thank...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from World on HuffingtonPost.comArchbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby released a statement on Wednesday calling for the end to the violence in Gaza and encouraging churches to pray for and offer support to victims. The archbishop's website reports that Welby has been e...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from World News & AnalysisCNBC takes a quick look at the dark pool trading platforms and why it's come under investigation.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesTurkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç previously urged women not to laugh in public to "protect moral values."
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsGAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing international alarm over a rising civilian death toll in Gaza, said on Thursday he would not accept any ceasefire that stopped Israel completing the destruction...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from USATODAY - World Top Stories
Student said he just wanted to help other researchers by sharing a research paper he found online.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalChina says leading pro-government imam murdered in volatile northwest, 2 suspects killed
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from USATODAY - World Top Stories
Prime Minister Netanyahu says he won't accept any truce that will not allow Israel to achieve its goal.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesThe ideal boss might be you.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesSome universities are warning students to be careful of a company that promises they can earn big money by selling its energy drink.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Business InsiderMobile payments are still far less common than credit cards or cash for transactions in stores, but a new feature found on over 200 million Android phones could be a game changer. Near Field Communications or NFC, which is us...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from World on HuffingtonPost.comMore than 240,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced from their homes by fighting between Israel and militant groups, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Most of them have sought refuge in schools run by the UN agency for Palesti...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldBrittney Griner and the Phoenix Mercury are closing in on one of the greatest records in WNBA history, the Los Angeles Sparks' 18-game winning streak.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from World on HuffingtonPost.comUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Thirty-two countries have written to a U.N. General Assembly committee asking the United Nations to recognize Judaism's holiest day, Yom Kippur, as an official holiday. The letter to the assembly's Committee on Conf...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from World on HuffingtonPost.comWASHINGTON -- The House Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to declassify its investigative Benghazi report, a move that likely further undercuts the premise behind the House's $3.3 million Benghazi select committee. When it is release...
- Android Is Absolutely Crushing The Smartphone Market — And It’s Not Even Close Anymore (GOOGL, AAPL)Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Business InsiderAndroid's market share of smartphone sales has ballooned in the second quarter, according to The Wall Street Journal . Citing a new report from research firm Strategy Analytics, 85% of global phone shipments in the second qua...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesThe jagged slopes of Skellig Michael, an island 7 miles off the coast of Ireland, might be abuzz with all sorts of imagined creatures as a filming location for Star Wars Episode VII -- but concerns over the island's rare, real-life inhab...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from CNN.comHundreds dead. Many more infected. Pervasive fear and denial are challenging authorities in west Africa who are trying to assess and address the Ebola crisis.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineBaggage handling firm Swissport, which works with BA, Virgin, Monarch, Thomas Cook and Thomson, has a critical lack of staff at Gatwick to load and unload planes.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineLance Corporal Frederick Swannell, of the Essex regiment, wrote the letter to his wife while serving in the trenches in France, but he died only weeks later.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe youngsters were thought to be part of 50-strong group living along the Envira river on the Brazil-Peru border, where up to 600 tribespeople still live a traditional way of life.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineNo ages or names were available, but the crash near the village of Slano in southern Croatia left two children and their father dead, and the man's wife and a third child critically injured.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThese 29 sumo wrestlers boarded a small propeller plane as they made their way to a training camp at Okinshima, an island in the Shimane Prefecture.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineWitnesses say the 11-year-old cried 'I'm going to die, I can't feel my arm' after the attack at the zoo in Cascavel, Brazil.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe man, described as a bald black male aged 30 to 40, was captured on camera in east London pulling a hat and wig from the front of his trousers before putting it on his head.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlinePaul Gaffney, from Cosham, Hampshire, left, approached vulnerable residents on their doorsteps. One of his victims, Peter Bolt, right, paid him more than £35,000.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineA large fire has started at coal-fired Ferrybridge Power Station near Knottingley, West Yorkshire. A total of 15 fire crews are currently dealing with the blaze
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIn an interview published in part in the Argentine weekly 'Viva' July 27, the unconventional pontiff, listed his lifestyle guide.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineAs hard-up families turn to budget rivals, a version of the hit Overheard In Waitrose site on Facebook has been made for the cut-price alternative: Aldi.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineMotorist Vero Salgado saw the dog get hit by a car as it tried to get from the crash barrier back to the safety of the hard shoulder, and decided to save it.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineMarina Litvinenko has said the 'whole world' will know the truth about what happened to her husband as Sir Robert Owen opened the inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineDiver Victoria Vincent, 13, originally from London, will become one of the youngest English athletes to compete at the games when she dives today.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe unidentified woman was sitting front row at the AT&T Park Stadium in San Francisco watching the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants play.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineNavi Pillay said that by placing and firing rockets within heavily populated civilian areas, both sides are committing 'a violation of international humanitarian law, therefore a war crime.'
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineAngela Merkel and Vladimir Putin have reportedly been locked in talks that will aim to ensure the Kremlin withdraws its support for separatists in Ukraine.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineWith house prices soaring by more than 10 per cent since last year, more people are being dragged into paying higher levels of the levy.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineAuthorities in Edgewood, New Mexico, say Salvador Martinez, 46, killed his girlfriend's black-and-white chiweenie while his grandchildren were inside the house. He told cops that he took little Onyx into the backyard and pierced her hear...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineA 18-year-old women has died in Xinjiang, China, after being electrocuted in her sleep while charging her iPhone 4s. It is not known if she was using an authentic Apple phone charger.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe violent South Tyneside student, 14, lunged at his teacher with a knife, narrowly missing his throat, only two days after teacher Ann Maguire was killed by a pupil.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe tribute took place before the Fremantle-Carlton AFL game in Perth on Thursday night.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe online bookseller said French firm Hachette, which acts for JK Rowling and Ian Rankin, is handing 'too small a portion' of the revenue to authors.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineBelgian tourist Kirsten Vanhenenrijk (right) could never have imagined that after she was raped in Kings Cross, Sydney nearly seven months ago that she would return and fall in love with Australia.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineSamantha Alexander has not let the loss of her vision stop her from achieving her goals.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThere are predictions that James Packer's penthouse proposed to sit atop the new Crown Casino in Barangaroo, Sydney, could sell for $100 million, but it's not the only expensive and luxurious apartment on the Australian property market.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineWARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT. The three-year-old horse was spotted by walkers in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and was in such a bad state that that they could smell the animal’s rotting flesh.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineAdopted into the Clayton family just three weeks ago, Tilly the Tabby wasted no time showing her gratitude to her new owners in east Melbourne.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineUkraine's parliament voted in support of giving Dutch and Australian officers the authority to lead the forensic investigation at the crash site - the vote also allows police to carry weapons as an 'insurance policy' but not onto the sit...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineLondon mayor Boris Johnson revealed the scheme in his London Infrastructure 2050 plan and predicted the capital would see a population shift to the east with Barking possibly becoming the next Piccadilly Circus.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineFormer NYPD officer Kenneth Moreno, 46, dubbed the 'rape cop' during his sensational 2011 trial, is suing the his 'opportunist' accuser and New York City for ruining his reputation three years after he was acquitted.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineMeriam Ibrahim, who was imprisoned for apostasy after refusing to renounce her Christian faith, left Rome this morning on a flight bound for Philadelphia.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineArgentina has defaulted for the second time in 12 years after last-ditch talks with what it called 'vulture' creditors failed. The failure follows accusations the president spent £20,000 a day having newspapers delivered by jet.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIt was through this experience that Dean learned the importance of the work that the Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) did to help save his daughter, Erin, who was born only 25 weeks into his wife's pregnancy.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe federal government's top health experts have met with border protection agencies who will step up monitoring and screening of incoming passengers at Australian airports as fear mounts about the world's largest outbreak of Ebola.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe female pilot, who hasn't been named, survived the crash and is being hailed a hero for landing the single-engine aircraft in a parking lot, avoiding scores more deaths.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineAimee Maiden, 25, and Nick Wheeler, 26, had no idea they had met before until they saw the grainy snap (left) taken 11 years before they first met in Mousehole, Cornwall.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineScenes from Britain and northern France have been made into composites, comparing 1914 with the present day, to mark the centenary of the First World War.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comNetanyahu vows to complete destruction of tunnels IDF calls up 16,000 more reservists UN commissioner calls on US to help stop the killing Gaza health system at point of collapse Military says it struck 110 terror sites in past 24 hours ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from BBC News - WorldThe performance of more than a fifth of prisons in England and Wales is "of concern", a government body says.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Father of Al Jazeera correspondent Peter Greste says he respects Egypt judiciary but believes it was wrong to jail son.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineBaby dolls have long been peeing 'like a real baby' since the 1930's but Toys "R" Us is now selling a doll with a realistic looking genitals--and it's upsetting some shoppers.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from BBC News - WorldIsrael says it will not halt its Gaza operation until tunnels built by Hamas are destroyed, as the UN warns Gaza is "facing a precipice".
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from BBC News - WorldArgentina blames the US for its default, calling the mediator in debt negotiations which ended in failure "incompetent".
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the former shareholders of the former oil concern Yukos are to receive a EUR 1.9 B compensation from Russia. This is the second sentence Russia has faced over the nationalization of Yukos in ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from BBC News - WorldLeisure airline Monarch terminates its contract with Swissport, one of the baggage-handling companies at Gatwick airport, after weekend chaos.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineYou had one job! A bureaucratic bungle has left a streetlight conveniently stuck in the middle of the ROAD with no plans to move it
