Record numbers of dogs are being poisoned after being fed chocolate, grapes and raisins by their owners as treats, say vets.Vets have seen a surge of almost 50 per cent in the number of dogs falling ill after eating chocolate. Toxins in grapes, raisins or
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]]> An Israeli lifeguard taking his regular morning swim off the Mediterranean coast in southern Israel discovered a 2,500-year-old marble talisman to ward off the evil eye, the Israel Antiquities Authority said.Experts say the relic, discovered off the coast
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]]> Pass her in a mall or on the sidewalk and you'd never guess the horrors she endured throughout her childhood."I was born into a drug-addicted family," she begins. "My father was a drug addict and my mother was an alcoholic." The last thing her kids need i
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]]> A water buffalo that's been targeted by thugs has had his own security cameras set up to try to protect him.Oink has had bricks thrown at him, his hay had been set on fire and someone put washing-up liquid in his water. The rescued 15-year-old animal, who
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]]> A 14,500-year-old woolly mammoth skeleton dug up in 1994 has been unveiled at the Milwaukee Public Museum, giving locals a glimpse of perhaps the most intact specimen discovered in North America. Standing more than twice the height of a person, the woolly
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]]> COMPUTER users frustrated by slow internet connections could soon be surfing the web 100 times faster, all thanks to new Australian technology.University of Sydney scientists say they have developed a new technology that could speed up the internet - and
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]]> Together they make a purrfect couple. But very soon Zara the lion cub will have to say goodbye to her male companion Arnie the ginger tom cat.After six weeks together, Zara is set to leave the confines of her comfy home to start a new life in Africa. But
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]]> Adam Moran chained himself to a tree because he says "dogs deserve better." He's part of the Dogs Deserve Better non-profit group. He's doing it in protest and two raise awareness of the inhumanity of keeping dogs chained up.Moran also said many dogs beco
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]]> Drug-addicted teens under the control of pimps are a top priority for the provincial government -- but only if they are ready to accept treatment. Peel Regional Police found a 14-year-old girl selling her body in a Mississauga motel room. For two months,
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]]> HAVING eczema as a child nearly doubles the risk of becoming an asthmatic later in life, according to research which lends strength to the aggressive treatment of childhood skin conditions.The incidence of asthma in people from the ages of eight to 44 who
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]]> WOMEN'S pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the baby's father is over 40 years old, according to a study.It has long been known that a woman's chance of reproducing declines with age once she is in her mid-thirties, but the new findings pr
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]]> Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.Helms died at 1:15 a
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]]> Heavily armed militias shatter the stillness in this central African park. Desperate refugees crowd park boundaries. Charcoal producers strip forests. Then, last summer, someone killed seven of these magnificent creatures in cold blood.The killers waited
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]]> Archeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious collapse of one of ancient civilization's largest cities.The soaring Teotihuacan stone pyramids, now a major tourist site
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]]> An RAF technician who shook his baby daughter to death then blamed his wife for the killing was jailed for six years and eight months today.Gareth Harries, 25, attacked eight-month-old Chloe when she would not stop crying.He initially blamed his wife Hayl
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]]> In an unprecedented attempt to revive the tiger population in western India, authorities airlifted a female tiger to a national reserve Friday where it will join a male tiger delivered there last week.The tigers were carried by Indian Air Force helicopter
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]]> The solar system may not be a nice round shape, but rather a bit squashed and oblong, according to data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring the solar system's outer limits, scientists said.Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 unmanned probes
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]]> A plan to kill badgers in England has been scrapped after the government decided it's not the best way to control a disease that's killing cows.A report by scientists recommended that a badger cull would help control bovine tuberculosis, or TB, in cattle.
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]]> A SINGAPOREAN housewife who set her dog on an Indonesian maid was sentenced to 20 months in jail for what a prosecutor called one of the worst cases of maid abuse.Tay Siew Hoon, 53, received the sentence in court yesterday.Prosecutor Lim Tse Haw said the
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]]> A two-year-old boy has driven his parents to despair by refusing to eat any food apart from yoghurtLittle Bobby Glarvey eats his way through 14 pots of his favourite dairy food every day and refuses to eat anything else that his parents put in front of h
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]]> What was before this universe is currently anybody's guess, but it is highly likely that it was preceded by a similar universe and therefore time existed before the Big Bang. The evidence to back this theory is said to be found in the Cosmic Microwave Bac
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]]> Jerry Lee Williams Jr. was, authorities say, the most sinister kind of rapist: He would rape and choke, rape and choke, and sometimes he would rape and kill. All told, there were six victims, authorities allege. Two are dead.And the state couldn't stop hi
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]]> The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.The ice retreated to a record level in September when the Northwest
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]]> Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home.He leaves his full-time executive
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]]> Afghanistan's snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war. But now the few remaining mountain leopards left in Afghanistan face another threat -- foreigners involved in rebuilding the war-torn country.Despite a complete hunting ban across Afgh
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]]> A long-simmering dispute within a North County Indian band boiled over yesterday when the tribe withheld casino profit checks from about 50 people, claiming that one of their ancestors was adopted and that as a result, they're not really Indians.Valley Vi
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]]> Police shoved terrified youths trying to leave ae nightclub back into the face of a deadly stampede that killed a dozen people, including three officers and a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said.The club's narrow entrance became a death trap as patrons wer
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]]> Wine is often considered to be an acquired taste but if your looking for an alternative tipple this summer then a bottle of elephant vintage could be the order of the day.Here in the South African outback one winery have decided to stretch the boundaries
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]]> Shoppers were stunned when a massive swarm of thousands of honey bees touched down in a busy city centre.Around 15,000 insects gathered in Queen Street, Exeter, at around lunchtime on Tuesday.While some people darted for cover, others stood and watched th
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]]> Scientists unearthed a skull of the most primitive four-legged creature in Earth's history, which should help them better understand the evolution of fish to advanced animals that walk on land.The 365 million-year-old fossil skull, shoulders and part of t
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]]> Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.Officials say they are preyed upon by organized networks of pimps who lure them in with
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]]> Today, the House passed legislation that will cut the Medicare Advantage program by 13.8 billion dollars over the next 5 years.We need your urgent action now!Follow link here to email your Senators and ask them to stop the cuts to Medicare Advantage.
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]]> The tale of dog poisonings at High Park took a twisted turn yesterday.At least two dead raccoons in the area were reported to police -- one holding a bouquet of flowers and another posed with a squirrel.A clump of whole-wheat bread drenched in what is lik
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]]> Extreme floods and droughts brought on by climate change can turn normally harmless infections into significant threats, international researchers said on Tuesday.They said weather extremes can create conditions in which several fairly harmless diseases c
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]]> The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday the death penalty cannot be imposed for child rape, its first decision in more than 30 years on whether a crime other than murder can be punished by execution.In its second major capital punishment ruling this yea
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]]> The hardliners hoisted their flag atop the school in Pusht, a town in the lawless Bajaur tribal district, and named it Jamia Hafsa after the girls' seminary connected to the Red Mosque in the capital.More than 100 people died in a week-long siege and subs
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]]> Animals everywhere are facing countless struggles for their survival this summer -- whether it's the floods in the Midwest, the puppy mills in the South, or the factory farms in California. But people who care about animals are stepping up to the plate to
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]]> A heartbroken Briton has launched an online auction of his 'entire life' on eBay, with the highest bid to date touching AU$ 2,201,000. Ian Usher has put his three-bedroom house in Perth, car, job and even his friends up for sale on the auction website.
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]]> Some big retailers are promoting compact fluorescent light bulbs as a way to save energy. But improper disposal of the bulbs creates a hazard, because they contain small amounts of mercury.Recycling them is about to get easier. Home Depot, the nation’s se
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]]> Between homework, cheerleading and working at Wendy's, Megan Ward was tired from being always on the go.So last year the 16-year-old began drinking a Red Bull or Monster energy drink before school and sometimes a second one before cheerleading practice.
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]]> A Winnipeg soldier guilty of assaulting his infant triplets had no intention of breaking their bones when he employed "inappropriate parenting techniques," a lawyer argued yesterday.His intention was to shock or startle the babies ... he did not intend an
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]]> It was supposed to be a heartwarming tale of a man who brought an orphaned bear cub home from the forests of India to console his 6-year-old daughter, who had just lost her mother.But when wildlife officials saw the story in the local media, it turned to
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]]> An Australian grandmother has given birth to naturally conceived triplets.Janelle Perry, who turns 47 next week, delivered the three boys by caesarian section at Mater Mothers' Hospital in the east coast city of Brisbane last Thursday.The arrival of Coope
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]]> Pandas living in earthquake-hit southwest China are facing a food shortage and some have been evacuated to temporary shelters because of the threat of landslides and other hazards.Only seven pandas of the original 63 are left in the Wolong Nature Reserve
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]]> At least 11 species of African frogs carry a built-in concealed weapon -- they can sprout claws on demand to fight off attackers, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.When threatened, the frogs can puncture their own skin with sharp bones in their toes tha
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]]> The rising Mississippi River interrupted travel on two bridges between Iowa and Illinois and forced the helicopter rescue of more than a dozen people sandbagging a levee before it broke, threatening to deluge thousands of acres.Authorities saved several p
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]]> SICHUAN, China -- One zoo in southwest China has its hands full with 16 baby pandas. The Sichuan Wolong Panda Protection and Breed Center is dealing with the results of a breeding boom.The brood includes five sets of twins.38 giant pandas were artificiall
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]]> Watch a newborn panda grow... up to 120 days.Sixteen photos of growth .
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]]> Even as millions of people are anxiously checking their mailboxes and bank accounts for their stimulus payments, others have received more than their fair share.Through June 6, the U.S. Treasury had sent 66.6 million payments totaling about $56.8 billion.
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]]> An interesting comparison of different places around 100 years ago and its present day. Above shows the junction at Faubourg Montmartre Paris, France comparing it in 1915 and 2008.Includes 5 more pics of how it used to look .





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