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BBC News (my additions in Red) A woman who dialled 999 (911 in USA) to report the theft of a snowman from outside her home has been branded "completely irresponsible" by Kent Police. The force said the woman, from Chatham, thought the incident required their involvement because she used...

BBC News 3 December 2010 Last updated at 08:14 ET Northern Europe remains in the grip of heavy snow and freezing temperatures, with more cold weather forecast for the weekend. Dozens of people are reported to have been killed by exposure to the cold or in weather-related accidents. The...

CCNMoney.com You've seen the 4G advertisements from T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon, bragging about a much-better wireless network with blazing fast speeds. Here's the secret the carriers don't advertise: 4G is a myth. Like the unicorn, it hasn't been spotted anywhere in the wild just yet --...

Assoc. Press Dec3 2010 – 21 mins ago STOCKHOLM – WikiLeaks' American domain name system provider, EveryDNS, has withdrawn service to the wikileaks.org name after the secret-spilling website once again became the target of hacker attacks. EveryDNS said in a statement that it...

.Nigeria's anti-corruption agency is to charge former US Vice-President Dick Cheney over a bribery scandal that involves a former subsidiary of energy firm Halliburton. The case centres on engineering firm KBR, which admitted bribing officials. A lawyer for Mr Cheney said allegations he...

BBC News The Ivorian military has sealed the country's borders and cut international media as tensions rise over the outcome of the presidential election run-off. It comes after the Constitutional Court rejected a declaration by the electoral commission that opposition candidate Alassane...

Raphael G. Satter And Malin Rising, Associated Press – 26 mins ago LONDON – The law is closing in on Julian Assange. Swedish authorities won a court ruling Thursday in their bid to arrest the WikiLeaks founder for questioning in a rape case, British intelligence is said to know where in...

Russia and Qatar have been chosen to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals respectively after a secret ballot of Fifa's 22 executive members in Zurich. Russia was selected ahead of co-bidders Spain-Portugal and Holland-Belgium and England, which won only two votes. Qatar defeated bids...

Arsenic-loving bacteria may help in hunt for alien life BBC News The bacteria slowly incorporated arsenic into their innermost workings The bacterium, found in a California lake, uses the usually poisonous element arsenic in place of phosphorus. The find, described in Science...

BBC News. Prisoners could make own toilet paper under Iowa plan The move could save the Iowa state prison system up to $100,000 (£64,292) a year Prisoners in the US state of Iowa could soon be making their own toilet paper, in what officials describe as a bid to save taxpayers money...

Find the answer that best completes the analogy people : democracy :: wealthy : A. oligarchy B. oligopoly C. plutocracy D. timocracy E. autocracy :p

About.com Willie Nelson Launches Political Movement After Arrest Wednesday December 1, 2010 Forget the Tea Party -- country music legend Willie Nelson has a different kind of movement he wants you to join. "There's the Tea Party," he said in an email to the CelebStoner Web site. "How...

What has been or would be your night to remember? A night at the Opera? A play? A show? I have a "To Do" list since moving to the US :D I want to go to: The Grand Ole Opry, Larry the Cable Guy Show, Jeff Dunham Show, a Rodeo, a live performance of Les Miserables...... the list...

Pears There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?

Please enter the missing figure: 13, 57, 911, 1315, 1719 A. 2123 B. 1879 C. 3002 D. 5004 E. 1784

Tue Nov 30, 4:45 pm ET How the new food safety bill might affect you By Brett Michael Dykes Today -- a year and half after it was passed by the House of Representatives --the Senate passed the Food Safety and Modernization Act (SB 510) by a 73-25 margin. The bill still has to...

By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Matthew Lee, Associated Press – 5 mins ago WASHINGTON – The government scrambled Tuesday to prevent future spills of U.S. secrets like the embarrassing WikiLeaks' disclosures, while officials pondered possible criminal prosecutions and Interpol in Europe...

PHONE FINGERS: Finger sleeves to help keep your precious touch-screen phone and iPod grease free. Or perhaps the ... MOTORISED ICE-CREAM CONE: For those too idle to twist their wrist, just pop your cone inside this battery-operated turning cone and it will do all the work. You can even put...

BBC News Nov 30 Toyota has said it will repair 650,000 Prius models worldwide because of a fault with the coolant pump. The problem, which does not represent a safety risk, could cause the vehicle to overheat and lose power. The Prius models involved were sold between 2004 and 2007...

165135 is to peace as 1215225 is to A. lead B. love C. loop D. castle