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Four more face execution in China for alleged heroin smuggling – Daily Mail


Daily Mail

Four more face execution in China for alleged heroin smuggling
Daily Mail
By Mail Foreign Service Four more foreigners face the death penalty in China for drug smuggling, days after a diplomatic row over the execution of a British national. They were among nine arrested in the southern port city of Shenzhen with 318.6lbs of ...
Four foreigners face execution in ChinaTimes Online

The Big Question: How should we deal with the emergence of China as a superpower?Independent
Four foreigners face execution over China drugs: reportAFP
BBC News -UK Net Guide -Telegraph.co.uk
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Teenager missing in US found safe – The Press Association


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Teenager missing in US found safe
The Press Association
A 19-year-old British woman who has been missing since December 18 in the US has been found safe, Santa Monica police have said. Sargeant Jay Trisler said officers received a tip-off and found Leona Dawn Perryman from Dorset, in the Venice area near ...
Teen Found Safe Following Boyfriend's ArrestSky News

BOYFRIEND IS QUIZZED AS BRIT TEEN VANISHEDDaily Star
Police hunt for British girl missing in California as travelling companion is ...Daily Mail
Fox40 -Los Angeles Times -LA Weekly (blog)
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Kodak lets you post pictures on their Times Square display, when you want it

Kodak, the company that is well known across the globe for photography and imaging products, has a cool new opportunity. They are allowing people to submit and post images to their large digital display at Times Square in New York City. If you think wasn’t cool enough, they even give you the option to choose [...]

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Tributes to teacher killed in Ben Nevis avalanche – BBC News


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Tributes to teacher killed in Ben Nevis avalanche
BBC News
A teacher from Wiltshire who was killed in an avalanche on Ben Nevis was preparing to move to Switzerland to become a mountain guide. Nicholas Rosedale, known as Rupert, was head of outside activities at Marlborough College. Paying tribute, his father ...
Top public school teacher killed in avalancheTelegraph.co.uk

Ben Nevis avalanche victim was Marlborough College teacherTimes Online
Pair killed in Ben Nevis avalanche were expert mountaineersThe Guardian
Scottish Daily Record -The Press Association -WalesOnline
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Star Wars and The A-Team get mashed-up

You know some things are just great together; like peanut butter and jelly, mustard and bratwurst, beer and well, more beer. But who would have ever dreamed that one beloved mercenary television series and an iconic science fiction story from the silver screen would mesh so beautifully together? Apparently kalleanka71 from YouTube had a vision they would. Take one part [...]

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Control your PS3 with a Nokia N900

Yesterday we saw a very cool device created by a modder called a Wireless Visual Interface. With it you can control and play on your PS3 as though it is a handheld device. Today we have a slightly different wireless PS3 controller in the form of a Nokia N900. It may not display the output from [...]

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Apple-imposed Boot Camp deadline for Windows 7 is set be missed

It is hard to believe that the year is almost gone and we are counting down the hours to the end of 2009. It is also hard to believe that in this same countdown to the beginning of another decade, Apple also stands to fail on a self-imposed deadline to update its Boot Camp software to support Windows [...]

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Early images of Sony’s CES booth

If you’ve ever been to CES the you probably know that setting up Sony’s booth must be a massive undertaking. The booth (and I use that term loosely, it’s probably about half an acre) is positioned in a sweet spot at the rear corner of one of the Las Vegas Convention Center’s massive halls. It [...]

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Your next support call may be answered by Amazon

Although Amazon is best known for its online store the e-tailer has also got a steadily growing cloud business platform through Amazon Web Services. If you need cloud computing, storage, database access, or a range of other business focused services then Amazon pretty much has you covered. A job listing that appeared and then got pulled [...]

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Murder leaves family ‘devastated’ – BBC News


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Murder leaves family 'devastated'
BBC News
The family of a 63-year-old grandmother murdered in her own flat have been talking of the devastation they feel at her death. Hannah Smith was found on Monday after a "prolonged attack" in her flat in Cranhill's Soutra Place. ...
Door to door inquiries continue in murder investigationstv.tv

Family fear Hannah knew her murdererThe Sun
Murdered Hannah's brother appeals for help in finding her blood-soaked killerScottish Daily Record
Scotsman -The Press Association -Glasgow Evening Times
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