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Darren Orrett murder Mother-of-six Dawn Barr stabbed devoted father of her children to death after he returned to the family home to try and patch up their relationship
Darren Orrett, 32, had moved out of the family home in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, he shared with care assistant Dawn Barr, 42, after she told him she had started a new relationship with lover Robert ...
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UK weather Rain threatens to turn the Bank Holiday weekend into a washout with highs of just 12C... but Brits vow to make the most of it as 9.5million drivers take to the roads
It traditionally signals the countdown to summer, but wind and lashing rain today threatened to turn the late May Bank Holiday weekend into a ...
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Benefits cheat worked as a childrens entertainer while saying she could barely walk because she had crippling arthritis
Fraud: Benefit cheat Caroline Hartshorn, who claimed benefits, claiming she could barely walk due to arthritis, was working as a children's ...
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Barack Obama seeks end to perpetual U.S. war on terror
WASHINGTON - Twelve years after the "war on terror" began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants. In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone campaign against al-Qaida and its allies and took steps toward closing the ...
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Tornado Calls For Shelters In All Schools
The deaths of seven children in an Oklahoma school hit by a tornado this week have led to new demands for all schools in the state to have storm shelters. Plaza Towers Elementary, where the children died, had no reinforced safe room and many question whether the deaths could have been prevented. "My daughter lost a friend. There is nothing that can change that," said Jennifer ...
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Champions League Prince William Backs Bayern
The Duke of Cambridge has told European football leaders that his money is on Bayern Munich to win Saturday's Champions League final at Wembley. Prince William, speaking in his role as president of the Football Association, was giving the opening speech at the Uefa Congress in London the day before Bayern play Borussia Dortmund in an all-German final. He predicted a 2-0 win for the ...
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Hairy moment for tiger Ty as football-sized hairball is removed from his stomach
A cat getting a hairball is not usually a life-threatening situation, unless the cat in question is a 27 stone Serbian tiger, and this particular hairball is the size of a ...
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Blasts shooting in center of Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) - Several large explosions rocked a busy area in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday with Reuters witnesses describing shooting in the ...
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Calif. pols push for law to make reckless pay price of rescue
(CBS News) Across the country, search-and-rescue teams are being called out more often -- and not because of the weather, but for people acting recklessly. Some think taxpayers are the real victims, and now there's a new push to change that. It was a tense drama that captivated Southern California in early April. On Easter Sunday, Nick Cendoya and Kyndall Jack set out on a wilderness hike ...
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Why Jolies cancer test costs so much
>Editor's note: Gayle Sulik is a medical sociologist, founder of the Breast Cancer Consortium and author of "Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health. " Follow her on Twitter: @pinkribbonblues(CNN) -- Angelina Jolie, when writing about her preventive double mastectomy, did not discuss how much her surgeries cost, but she did mention that many women would not be ...
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African Union seeks financial independence
The African Union has vowed to finance its working budget using mainly domestic resources as it marks its 50th anniversary this week, the deputy chairperson of the continental body's commission has said. Erastus Mwencha made the comments on Thursday at the AU's headquarters in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, while addressing a news conference about the union's budget and ...
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Bushs war on terror is over
>Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden -- From 9/11 to Abbottabad," the basis for the HBO documentary "Manhunt" that will be shown on CNN at 9 p.m. today. Washington (CNN) -- In the past few weeks, we've seen a British soldier hacked to death with a meat cleaver on ...
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We loved you so much you didnt deserve this Devastated family of murdered soldier Lee Rigby pay emotional tribute to him
'We were attempting to get hold of Lee, obviously we couldn’t. It was the middle of the night when we got confirmed to us it was Lee,' he said ...
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UPDATE 2-U.S. tornado insured losses estimated at $2 bln-$5 bln
Fri May 24, 2013 8:52am EDT May 24 (Reuters) - Tornadoes that struck the United States from May 18 to May 20 caused between $2 billion to $5 billion of insured losses, disaster modeling company Eqecat said late Thursday. At the high end of the range, the tornado outbreak may rank as the second-worst ever in terms of insured losses, behind the late-April 2011 twisters that devastated Tuscaloosa, ...
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Sweden Fifth Night Of Rioting In Stockholm
Riots continued for a fifth night in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Cars, schools and a police station were set alight in response to the fatal shooting of an immigrant by ...
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Durable goods orders rise point to factory sector resilience
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rose more than expected in April, a sign of resilience in the factory sector despite belt-tightening in Washington and weakness in overseas ...
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Kerry says Israelis Palestinians must make tough decisions
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders are nearing crunch time, when they must decide whether to revive long-dormant peace negotiations to end their decades-old conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on ...
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Video Miller on London attack Weve never seen anything like this
CBS News' senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant FBI director, discusses the London attack and what is now known about the suspects and their alleged ...
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Video shows London suspects with radical preacher
This story contains video that some viewers may find graphic. (CBS News) LONDON -- Detectives in London were to question two people arrested over the murder ...
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Hung jury reportedly emotional at Jodi Arias trial
Defendant Jodi Arias listens to defense attorney Kirk Nurmi make his closing arguments during her trial on Friday, May 3, 2013 at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. A jury was not able to reach a unanimous decision on whether to sentence her to ...
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Eye Opener Emergency landing after airplane catches fire
A holiday travel mess has ensued after a bridge in Washington State collapsed and closed one of the nation's biggest highways. Plus, a new warning about this year's hurricane season. Also, a woman who reunited with her dog after the Oklahoma tornado gives an update. All that, and all that mattered, in today's "Eye ...
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Bridge section disappears in big puff of dust
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust." "I hit the brakes and we went off," Sligh told reporters from a hospital, adding he "saw the water approaching you hold on as tight as you can." Sligh, his wife and another man in a ...
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Turkey parliament passes anti-alcohol bill
Turkey's parliament has backed a controversial bill restricting the consumption and advertising of alcohol in the predominantly Muslim country. The measure, passed on Friday, prohibits alcoholic beverage companies from sponsoring events and restricts the places where such drinks can be consumed. It also bans the sale of alcoholic drinks between 10pm and 6:00am. Supporters of the measure - ...
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Deadly blast targets Thai soldiers
Five paramilitary soldiers have been killed and one other has been wounded by a roadside bomb in southern Thailand, local police say. Police said on Friday that the soldiers were travelling in a pick-up vehicle to meet Muslim community leaders in the Saiburi district of Pattani, one of Thailand's southernmost provinces hit by a near-decade long rebellion which has claimed more than 5,500 ...
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Kerry urges hard decisions for peace talks
John Kerry, US secretary of state, has urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to take "hard decisions" to revive the Middle East peace process. Kerry has been pressing Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace talks that broke down in September 2010. "We're getting toward a time now when hard decisions need to be made," he said in Tel Aviv on Friday at the end of his ...
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Memphis needs to become metro city government
The politics involved in discussions on whether or not the city of Memphis and Shelby County should be consolidated into a metropolitan government are often heated and always divisive. The issue is a controversial one with many opinions; one advocacy group believes that the failure to consolidate may hamper the development of city and wider county area.
Memphis and Shelby County are among 31 other pairs of cities and counties in the United States considering consolidation into a metropolitan government, as well as 6 taking steps towards consolidation and a further 43 that have either merged fully or partially. As the county seat of Shelby County, Memphis is the economic, transport and communications hub of the county, the land area of the city alone takes up almost of the entire county. Read more
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