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• Turkish President Erdogan fined 10,000 lira for calling statue symbolising peace a 'monstrosity'

  05-03-2015 23:58
  
  An Istanbul court has ordered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to pay an artist 10,000 Turkish Lira (£2,500) in compensation, after the politician called his sculpture a “monstrosity.”
  
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• NFL teams look for bargains, avoid busts in free agency

  05-03-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NFL teams and their fans have been waiting for free agency since last season ended. Salary cap space has been counted and rechecked, ready for splurging on that star capable of turning franchises from losers to winners with the simple change of a jersey.
  
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• No murder charge for 15-year-old girl in brother's slaying

  05-03-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A 15-year-old north Florida girl who authorities say fatally shot her 16-year-old brother after years of abuse has pleaded no contest to felony burglary and will receive probation.
  
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• Cardinal Edward Egan, former New York archbishop, dies at 82

  05-03-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cardinal Edward Egan, a former Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, who won praise for his leadership after the Sept. 11 attacks but was criticized for his handling of a clergy sex abuse scandal, died on Thursday at age 82. Egan, considered an expert in theology and canon law, was pronounced dead at 2:20 p.m. (1920 GMT) at NYU Langone Medical Center, where he was taken after eating lunch at his residence, the archdiocese said in a statement. As archbisho
  
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• Marital rape: Why is it legal in India?

  05-03-2015 23:45 via edition.cnn.com
  
  In India, a staggering 94% of rapes are committed by perpetrators known to the victim but hidden from view is a huge number of women with no legal road -- those sexually assaulted by their husbands.
  
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• Painful rape film tries to expose big picture

  05-03-2015 23:45 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The documentary, 'India's Daughter' features an unrepentant, convicted gang rapist blaming his victim -- but it also shows how even people with power in India harbor shockingly similar attitudes.
  
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• Plane skids of snowy runway

  05-03-2015 23:42 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A Delta flight skidded off a runway at New York's LaGuardia airport. Pictures show the aircraft on the ground at the snow-covered airport, with its nose pushed through a fence
  
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• Holmes opens 4-shot lead at Blue Monster

  05-03-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DORAL, Fla. (AP) — J.B. Holmes had a tap-in eagle to go along with eight birdies for a 10-under 62 to build a four-shot lead after the opening round of the Cadillac Championship.
  
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• East-leading Hawks face LeBron in possible playoff preview

  05-03-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks are blowing away everyone in the Eastern Conference.
  
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• ISIS stone to death gay Syrians

  05-03-2015 23:40 via edition.cnn.com
  
  There have been at least six cases of Syrians being thrown from high buildings or beheaded by ISIS because of their perceived sexual orientation. But there may be many more cases.
  
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• ISIS bulldozes ancient city

  05-03-2015 23:39 via edition.cnn.com
  
  ISIS has again destroyed cultural treasures, this time bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, state-run media said Thursday.
  
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• Can Etsy keep its folksy brand and make shareholders money?

  05-03-2015 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — If craft seller Etsy goes public later this year it will be a test of how well the company can balance an explicit social mission with shareholder expectations for making money.
  
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• Chinese premier cuts country's growth target

  05-03-2015 23:39
  
  Li Keqiang warns ‘the difficulties we are to encounter in the year ahead may be even more formidable than those of last year’China’s premier Li Keqiang cut the nation’s growth target to “around” 7% on Thursday, reiterating the need to pursue reform as development slows and the likelihood of tougher times ahead for the world’s second largest economy.
  Systemic, institutional and structural problems have become ‘tigers in the road’ holding up development. Continue reading...
  
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• For Northeast, a brutal winter redefines 'enough is enough'

  05-03-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Forget the winter of our discontent. For Northeasterners enduring one of the coldest, snowiest seasons in decades, it's the winter of our exasperation, full-on funk and enough-is-enough rage.
  
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• UK reaction after rape documentary airs

  05-03-2015 23:34 via edition.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Phil Black finds a generational divide for the controversial "India's Daughter" documentary as one viewer explains her shock and disgust at its revelations.
  
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• CDC Finds Troubling Rise in Teen Suicide Method

  05-03-2015 23:31 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Fewer teens are killing themselves using guns, but more are choosing suffocation and strangling, government researchers reported Thursday.
  
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• Chelsea Manning: court order bans US military from referring to soldier as 'he'

  05-03-2015 23:29
  
  Court order banning military from referring to Manning using masculine pronouns marks another advance towards army soldier’s gender transition goalChelsea Manning, the US army soldier serving 35 years in prison for leaking a huge stash of state secrets, has won a small but significant victory in her bid to transition to living as a woman.
  Manning has taken on the might of the US military, challenging its ongoing refusal to refer to her as a woman, and won. A court order from the US army cour
  
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• Chain of kidney transplants begins at San Francisco hospital

  05-03-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Zully Broussard thought she was going to help one person by donating a kidney.
  
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• AbbVie CEO defends Pharmacyclics deal to skeptical investors

  05-03-2015 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AbbVie Inc chief Richard Gonzalez fought two other drugmakers to "the bitter end" to buy Pharmacyclics Inc for its hot-selling Imbruvica cancer drug, but may have a harder time convincing investors it is worth $21 billion. Since then, some shareholders have questioned how the company will protect its best-selling drug Humira, for arthritis, against new rivals when it loses patent protection in late 2016. "AbbVie is taking a hit today because of the dilution and because they look a little despera
  
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• Eastern Oregon dig uncovers ancient stone tool

  05-03-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Archaeologists have uncovered a stone tool at an ancient rock shelter in the high desert of eastern Oregon that could turn out to be older than any known site of human occupation in western North America.
  
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• Poll finds Pope Francis' popularity in US rising

  05-03-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis' popularity among Americans is rising, six months before his first papal visit to the United States, a public opinion poll released Thursday suggests. Ninety percent of Catholic Americans surveyed by the Pew Research Center said they thought well of the 78-year-old pope -- and that includes 57 percent who held a "very favorable" view of him.
  
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• Super Salah at the double as Viola end Juve's unbeaten run

  05-03-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mohamed Salah struck twice as Fiorentina ended Juventus' 42-game unbeaten run at home on their way to a 2-1 win in the first leg, semi-final of the Italian Cup on Thursday. On-loan Chelsea midfielder Salah has been in sparkling form since arriving in Florence last month, the Egyptian international hitting the net three times in four games in Serie A and scoring La Viola's second in a 2-0 Europa League win over Tottenham in Florence last week. Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri left pr
  
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• VIDEO: Revolutionary urinal 'makes energy'

  05-03-2015 23:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A toilet that could revolutionise sanitation facilities in refugee camps has been developed by a group of researchers at the University of the West of England.
  
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• In Suriname, indigenous groups present lawmakers with plan to conserve roughly half of country

  05-03-2015 23:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Members of indigenous tribes in Suriname presented lawmakers with an ambitious proposal Thursday urging them to conserve roughly half of the sparsely populated country with a sprawling rainforest hinterland.
  
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• 'Jihadi John' terror links before ISIS

  05-03-2015 23:13 via edition.cnn.com
  
  British security services believe 'Jihadi John's' links to extremism pre-date ISIS' rise -- and include recruiting potential terrorists and working with militants trained by al Qaeda -- according to documents obtained by CNN.
  
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• Father tells jury about boy's death at Boston Marathon

  05-03-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seated at the defense table no more than 15 feet away Thursday, the father of an 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombing described the moment when he looked down at his son's pale, torn body and realized he wouldn't make it.
  
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• Can Clinton live up to pledge to learn from 2008 mistakes?

  05-03-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says that if she pursues the presidency again, it will be different this time around.
  
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• Latest on Boston bombing trial: Dad of boy who died speaks

  05-03-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Ringling elephants say goodbye to the circus

  05-03-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thirteen of the animals currently part of the circus' migrating entourage will be relocated to the Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation in Florida, the company said. Family scions Nicola and Alana Feld, meanwhile, acknowledged that the decision to retire their elephant act is part of an ongoing cultural shift. It once would have been unthinkable to have a big tent circus act without elephants, long a crowd favorite. Animal rights activists over the years have become more organize
  
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• Mysterious dwarf planet Ceres gets ready for the spotlight

  05-03-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mysterious dwarf planet Ceres is ready for its close-up.
  
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• Plane skids off LaGuardia runway, slams into fence near bay

  05-03-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A Delta plane from Atlanta skidded off a LaGuardia Airport runway while landing during a snowstorm on Thursday and crashed through a chain-link fence, its nose coming to rest perilously close to the icy waters of a bay.
  
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• Google providing car insurance quotes in latest expansion

  05-03-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is helping California drivers shop for car insurance as part of a new service that could foreshadow the Internet company's latest attempt to shake up a long-established industry.
  
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• When in Paris: Kim Kardashian and Jared Leto go platinum

  05-03-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Kim Kardashian made a fashion statement of her own at Balmain's show Thursday, showing off newly platinum locks.
  
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• Overheard on the ladies' coach

  05-03-2015 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The interesting things you hear in a women-only carriage
  
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• Manning takes first pay cut to return to Broncos

  05-03-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Peyton Manning, who finished second in the league with 39 touchdown passes last year, has agreed to take a pay cut to return to the Denver Broncos. The 38-year-old Manning will see his base salary drop from $19 million to $15 million next season, the Denver Post reported Thursday. "We're glad to work something out with Peyton so that he will be part of our team this season," said Broncos general manager John Elway. Manning, who is heading into his 18th National Football League sea
  
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• Amid crisis, Venezuelans remember Chavez 2 years after death

  05-03-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Early morning fireworks burst over Venezuela's capital Thursday for a commemoration of Hugo Chavez on the second anniversary of his death, even as economic crisis threatens to undo his legacy of lifting many out of poverty.
  
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• Comedy Central's Bee moves to TBS

  05-03-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The exodus continues at "The Daily Show," with TBS announcing Thursday that it is giving longtime correspondent Samantha Bee her own topical comedy show.
  
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• Source: Syrians kill al Qaeda targets

  05-03-2015 22:42 via edition.cnn.com
  As many as 13 senior leaders of al Qaeda's largest affiliate in Syria, al-Nusra Front, were killed in two Syrian air strikes Thursday, a Middle Eastern security source who was briefed by Syrian intelligence told CNN.
  
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• Major banks in US all pass first phase of stress tests

  05-03-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Washington (AFP) - The 31 largest banks in the United States passed the first phase of regulatory stress tests, the Federal Reserve announced Thursday.
  
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• Argentina prosecutor 'was murdered'

  05-03-2015 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Independent tests show that Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was deliberately killed, his family says, ruling out accident or suicide.
  
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• 'Dr. Phil': To air 'intervention with Bobbi Brown's partner

  05-03-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The "Dr. Phil" shows says it will air an "intervention" conducted with Nick Gordon, the partner of hospitalized Bobbi Kristina Brown.
  
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• Homeowners group denies playhouse for cancer-stricken girl

  05-03-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The parents of a young girl with leukemia want to build their daughter a playhouse, but they've been blocked by their homeowners association.
  
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• Report: Suicides by girls and young women continue to climb

  05-03-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say the suicide rate for girls and young women continues to rise, at a pace far faster than for young males.
  
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• Bali Nine: executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran may be delayed

  05-03-2015 22:34
  
  Death sentences cannot be carried out this week, says Indonesian attorney general, but president rejects Australian foreign minister’s prisoner swap offer Continue reading...
  
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• Largest US banks all pass latest round of Fed 'stress tests'

  05-03-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — All of the nation's 31 largest banks are adequately fortified to withstand a severe U.S. and global recession and keep lending, the Federal Reserve says.
  
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• Boko Haram kills 68, razes village

  05-03-2015 22:32 via edition.cnn.com
  Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead and slit the throats of 68 people -- including children -- in an attack on a village in Nigeria's Borno state, according to survivors and vigilante sources.
  
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• Largest 31 US banks all pass Fed 'stress tests' of their strength in case of severe recession

  05-03-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Largest 31 US banks all pass Fed 'stress tests' of their strength in case of severe recession.
  
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• Soccer stars charged with spitting

  05-03-2015 22:31 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Manchester United defender Jonny Evans and Newcastle United striker Papiss Cisse have been charged by the Football Association for allegedly spitting during an altercation in Wednesday night's Premier League game at St James' Park.
  
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• Mission to find mummified body at Mexico's highest peak

  05-03-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican climbers embarked on an expedition on Thursday to recover a frozen, mummified body discovered near the peak of the country's highest mountain. The 12 local civil protection mountaineers left before dawn after climbers reported seeing a frozen skull 310 meters (1,000 feet) from the peak of the 5,610-meter Pico de Orizaba, authorities said.
  
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• Top al-Qaida leader killed in air strike, says militant group in Syria

  05-03-2015 22:22
  
  US-led coalition spokesman denies air strikes were conducted in past 24 hours
  Nusra Front announced that Abu Humam al-Shami died in bombingAl-Qaida’s official Syrian wing, the Nusra Front, announced on Thursday the death of its top military commander, who insurgent sources said fell victim to a blast targeting a high-level militant meeting. Abu Humam al-Shami, a general military commander and veteran of Islamist militant fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, was the senior-most member of th
  
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