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Nissan to recall 841,000 vehicles due to steering wheel glitch
Nissan Motor Co Ltd will recall about 841,000 vehicles worldwide including the Micra compact car, also known as the March, as a result of a steering wheel glitch, Japan's No.2 automaker said. Nissan is recalling certain models of the Micra compact...
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Study finds mental arithmetic boost
A harmless form of brain stimulation can bring about improvements in mental arithmetic skills, according to a new study. The process, called transcranial random noise stimulation (TRNS), was still having helpful effects six months later, the...
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A guitar played by Beatles pair John Lennon and George Harrison sold for £269,000 (€317,791) at a New York auction yesterday. The Beatles Vox guitar, a custom prototype made in 1966 and later given to ‘‘Magic Alex’’ Mardas, a friend of the band, was...
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North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row
North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast today, a day after launching another three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said. Launches by the North of short-range missiles are not uncommon but, after recent warnings from...
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Iran hangs two spies 'working for Israel and the US'
Iranian authorities have executed two men convicted of working for Israeli and USspy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for...
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IRS chief declines to identify employees involved in scandal
The outgoing head of the US Internal Revenue Service has angered Republican lawmakers by resisting their demands that he identify who at the tax-collection agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. But during the...
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Hollande signs France’s gay marriage law
French President François Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalise gay weddings. France’s official journal yesterday announced that the bill had become law after the Constitutional...
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Rome protest turns up heat on new PM Letta
Thousands of people protested in Rome yesterday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession. “We hope that this government will finally...
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Merkel visits Pope, urges tougher market controls
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis yesterday and, apparently responding to his criticism of a heartless “dictatorship of the economy”, called for stronger regulation of financial markets. On Thursday, Francis appealed in a speech for...
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North Korea fires three short-range missiles
North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast yesterday, South Korea’s Defence Ministry said, but the purpose of the launches was unknown. Launches by the North of short-term missiles are not uncommon, but the ministry would not...
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Former Argentinian dictator dies in prison
Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a ‘dirty war’ dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday aged 87. Videla (pictured) was...
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Egyptian police block Gaza border in anger
Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again yesterday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said. The protest began on Friday when police strung...
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Fresh violence kills 8 in Iraq
Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq yesterday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi’ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian hatred. Sunni-Shi’ite...
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US chides Russia over Syria missiles
The US chided Russia for sending missiles to the Syrian Government as plans for a peace conference promoted by Washington and Moscow were hit by diplomatic rifts over its scope and purpose. Sectarian bloodshed in neighbouring Iraq during Friday...
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Hunger strike at Guantanamo
Protesters depicting detainees of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stage a ‘murder scene’ during a demonstration outside the US embassy in central London, yesterday. Last Friday marked the 100th day the vast majority of prisoners...
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A college student in suburban Atlanta is accused of faking his own kidnapping to avoid telling his parents he was failing a class. John’s Creek city spokesman Doug Nurse says 19-year-old Aftab Aslam bought a mobile phone and texted his parents a...
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Plane's landing gear catches fire landing at Moscow airport
There were tense scenes on Moscow airport today as passengers were evacuated as a plane's landing gear caught fire. The jet, carrying 140 passengers, caught fire while landing at Moscow's Vnukovo airport. No one was hurt in the incident, the latest...
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Huge meteoroid strike dazzles scientists
An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured the largest meteoroid strike since monitoring began. The impact of the 44-pound meteor created a flash of light so bright it would have been noticeable to anyone looking at the moon at the...
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New Xbox more than a game console for Microsoft
Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry. But the small...
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Armed groups bomb Libyan military posts in Benghazi
Armed groups attacked military posts in Libya's second city Benghazi with bombs and a rocket-propelled grenade last night, an army commander said. Nearly two years after the uprising that ended Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule, the government still...
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Commuter trains collide in Connecticut, injuring up to 60 people
A commuter train travelling eastbound from New York City derailed near the Connecticut suburb of Fairfield during the evening rush hour and collided with a westbound commuter train, injuring up to 60 people, three critically, officials said. The...
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