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CNN Jan 20 London (CNN) -- Britain has denied entry to the Florida pastor who said last year that he was "praying about" whether to burn Qurans to protest the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "The government opposes extremism in all its forms which is why we have excluded Pastor...

BBC Jan 19 A German man has admitted to smuggling live tarantulas into the US. Prosecutors said Sven Koppler of Wachtberg posted hundreds of spiders to buyers in the US and across the world, earning more than $295,000 (£184,548). Among the spiders he sold were Mexican red-kneed...

BBC News Jan 20 A US astronaut has lost his place on the next space shuttle mission next month, after falling off his bicycle. Tim Kopra was injured in a cycling accident at the weekend. His place as the lead spacewalker on the shuttle's flight will be taken by another astronaut...

BBC News Jan 20 The victim of a high-profile New York baby-snatching case has been reunited with her mother after solving the mystery of her abduction herself. Carlina White was abducted from a hospital in Harlem in August 1987, when she was just 19 days old. Raised as Nejdra Nance in...

BBC News Jan 20 There has been uproar in the Irish parliament after five ministers quit the cabinet inside two days, with a sixth expected to join them. It was confirmed overnight that four had tendered their resignations, joining Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, who stood down on Tuesday...

The Stanley Hotel Estes Park, Colorado Brief history: Completed in 1909 by Freelan Oscar Stanley (inventor of the Stanley Steamer automobile), this 138-guest room hotel in the Colorado Rockies is probably best known as the inspiration for Stephen King's book The Shining, which he wrote...

Independent Jan 19 Curry has become the latest in a bizarre line of alleged cures after it was claimed the dish could fend off the common cold 1. For centuries it was believed that Copper could cure anything from gallstones to rheumatism and even today copper bracelets are commonly worn to...

Mickey Mouse :p Here is the UK one :D Copyright law of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think the copyright law in UK is 70 years after death.

BBC News The new James Bond book, written by thriller author Jeffery Deaver, will be called Carte Blanche. The title and cover were unveiled in Dubai where parts of the book are set. US writer Deaver said the novel - to be published in the UK on 26 May - posed "the looming question of...

Independent Jan 19 A mysterious visitor to Edgar Allan Poe's grave has failed to show up for the second year in a row. Fans of the writer waited all night at the Baltimore cemetery where Poe is buried. Four impostors came and went. At about 5am yesterday, the dozen Poe fans who were left...

BBC News Jan 19 Amoebas show primitive farming behaviour as they travel A species of amoeba - among the simplest life forms on Earth - has been seen "farming" the bacteria it eats. When the bacteria become scarce, the Dictyostelium discoideum slime mould gathers up into a "fruiting...

[/B] I can assure you that I NEVER, EVER snip an article to MY satisfaction, I try & post what I think will be of interest to EO Members. If the piece is too long I will copy a prargraph or two and then I will insert the page that I have been reading. As for my "liberal" opinion you...

Wednesday January 19 2011 Associated Press= AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A proposed Texas state budget would cut a staggering $5 billion from public schools. The draft of the two-year budget was released late Tuesday as Gov. Rick Perry and his supporters were dancing at an inaugural celebration. The...

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms...

The Queen Mary This grand old ship is quite haunted, according to the many people who have worked on and visited the craft. Once a celebrated luxury ocean liner, when it ended its sailing days the Queen Mary was purchased by the city of Long Beach, California in 1967 and transformed into a...

Athens, Georgia: Demetrius Robinson, 28, wanted to rob a Golden Pantry store late one night, but he needed to pass the time as naturally as possible until he and the clerk were alone, so he decided to fill out a job application. Not a bad idea, except he left his real name on the...

Independent The Arctic is to become the "new environmental battleground", campaigners warned yesterday after BP announced plans to drill in one of the last great unspoilt wildernesses on earth. Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have vowed to confront BP's...

BBC News Jan 18 Technology that links vehicles into "road trains" that can travel as a semi-autonomous convoy has undergone its first real world tests. The trials held on Volvo's test track in Sweden slaved a single car to a lorry to test the platooning system. Trains of cars under the...

BBC Researchers in Australia have discovered a secret weakness of one of the ocean's most impressive predators. Sharks, it seems, are completely colour blind. The scientists, who examined retinas of 17 different species of shark, discovered that the creatures had only one type of...