Saturday, November 19, 2005 Supporters of convicted Australian drug trafficker, Van Nguyen, gathered outside the State Library in Melbourne yesterday to display thousands of messages of opposition to his death sentence. Callers to talkback radio in Melbourne were overwhelmingly against the death penalty of Nguyen, who immediately admitted his guilt and has cooperated with authorities […]
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vault containing millions of seeds from all over the world, saw its first deposits on Tuesday. Located 800 kilometers from the North Pole on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the vault has been referred to by European Commission president José Manuel Barroso as a “frozen
Seeds placed in Norwegian vault as agricultural ‘insurance policy’
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Monday, November 28, 2005 U.S. Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R–CA) pled guilty today to conspiring to take bribes in exchange for using his influence as a member of the House Appropriations Committee to help a defense contractor get business. In total he pled guilty to one count of income tax evasion and four counts of
Congressman Cunningham admits taking bribes
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 Toronto pop culture convention Fan Expo Canada has wrapped for another year. It ran from Thursday to Sunday. Major panels included Tim Curry and the cast of Rocky Horror Picture Show, Beauty and the Beast voices Robby Benson and Paige O’Hara, actors Kathleen Turner, Richard Dreyfuss, Anthony Daniels, Felicia Day, and
Tim Curry, TV premiere screenings, cosplay feature at Fan Expo Canada
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Friday, July 8, 2005 The Commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, has announced that thirteen people died when a bomb exploded on a bus in Tavistock Square. Initially, only two people were thought to have been killed. All bodies have now been removed from the wrecked bus. The rear of the bus and
Thirteen people died in London bus bombing
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Friday, March 10, 2017 UK chancellor Philip Hammond announced his 2017 budget on Wednesday, which included a £2 billion pledge to social care and a tax hike on the self-employed. It was accused of breaking Conservative Party manifesto promises. It was announced there will be a 2% increase in national insurance contributions for the self-employed,
UK chancellor raises national insurance payments for self employed in new budget
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byAlma Abell Quartz has joined granite as one of the most popular kitchen countertop materials in Hays. Like most natural stone materials, it’s durable, attractive and long lasting, but quartz has a few other advantages that make it a natural choice for kitchen countertops. Quartz is Maintenance-Free Granite countertops are popular but they do come
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Pranab Mukherjee was appointed the External Affairs Minister while veteran Congressman A K Antony took his place as Defence Minister in a minor expansion-cum-reshuffle of his 29-month-old government by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Kannada actor-turned-politician M H Ambareesh made his debut in the Union Ministry as Minister of State for Information
PM reshuffles Cabinet, Pranab Mukherjee is new Indian Foreign minister
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