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• 'Blade Runner' Oscar Pistorius

  19-10-2015 23:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Oscar Pistorius, the first double-amputee runner to compete in the Olympics, was found guilty of culpable homicide in October 2014.
  
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• The human drama of Korean family reunions

  19-10-2015 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The human drama of Korean cross-border family reunions
  
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• 'Joubert wrong to award penalty'

  19-10-2015 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Craig Joubert was wrong to give a penalty against Scotland in the World Cup defeat by Australia, says World Rugby.
  
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• NY 'Goodfellas' robbery trial opens

  19-10-2015 22:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An alleged member of a New York crime family goes on trial over an airport heist immortalised in the gangster film Goodfellas.
  
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• CIA boss's personal email 'hacked'

  19-10-2015 22:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US authorities look into reports that CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account has been hacked by a high-school student.
  
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• Syrians flee Russian bombs

  19-10-2015 22:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An assault on Syria's largest city is heating up, causing more despair, as CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports
  
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• VIDEO: What Ramon Vega could bring to Fifa job

  19-10-2015 22:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Tottenham defender Ramon Vega is considering standing as a candidate in the Fifa presidential election.
  
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• Soccer stars saving lives with hotel generosity

  19-10-2015 21:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  There are thousands of people sleeping rough in the UK but for a lucky few in Manchester help is at hand from one of the northern city's most famous sons.
  
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• 80-year-old on trial in New York over 'Goodfellas' heist

  19-10-2015 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An 80-year-old alleged mobster accused of playing a role in the spectacular 1978 airport heist immortalized in Martin Scorsese's movie "Goodfellas" went on trial in New York on Monday. Vincent Asaro, reputedly a member of the notorious Bonanno crime family, is accused of murder, violence and extortion that allegedly span 45 years from the late 1960s to 2013. In what was the biggest heist on US soil, armed mobsters stole $5 million in cash and nearly $1 million in jewels from a Lufthansa Airlines
  
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• S&P upgrades Ukraine from 'selective default'

  19-10-2015 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kiev (AFP) - Standard and Poor's upgraded Ukraine's credit rating on Monday from "selective default" thanks to the cash-strapped former Soviet country's ability to strike a major debt write-restructuring deal.
  
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• Who really killed the Red Baron?

  19-10-2015 21:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An eyewitness report going up for auction states that the World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron was shot down from the ground, not just from the air, as is popularly believed.
  
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• US homebuilder sentiment improves in October

  19-10-2015 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. homebuilders are feeling more optimistic about the housing market, lifting their confidence this month to the highest level in 10 years.
  
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• Carson, Trump have requested Secret Service protection

  19-10-2015 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service says the top two GOP presidential hopefuls have requested protection from the taxpayer-funded agency.
  
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• US stocks move lower in afternoon trading; Oil price falls

  19-10-2015 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks drifted mostly lower in late-afternoon trading Monday, weighed down by energy stocks as the price of oil declined. Investors were also considering the latest batch of company earnings and deal news, as well as a slowdown in China's growth.
  
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• Turkey names ISIS-linked suicide bomber

  19-10-2015 21:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Turkish prosecutors have identified one of the suicide bombers behind the worst terror attack in that country's recent history.
  
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• Doggie DNA study says Fido first appeared in Central Asia

  19-10-2015 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Where did dogs first arrive on the scene? Scientists have long debated that question, and now a study of doggie DNA from around the world is pointing to Central Asia.
  
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• Hints of life on what was thought to be desolate early Earth

  19-10-2015 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found fossil-like hints that some kind of life existed on Earth 4.1 billion years ago — when the planet was a mere volcanic toddler. That's 300 million years earlier for life to pop up than previously thought.
  
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• 'Downton Abbey' final season set to begin in January

  19-10-2015 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The final season of the popular British drama "Downton Abbey" will begin on Jan. 3, leading up to a finale on the first weekend of March, PBS announced Monday.
  
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• Tests begin after fire put out at radioactive waste site

  19-10-2015 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Several state agencies that responded to a fire at a radioactive waste site in rural southern Nevada were testing air quality and checking for any other problems Monday after the flames were extinguished.
  
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• PBS' 'Finding Your Roots' returning in January

  19-10-2015 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — PBS' popular "Finding Your Roots" series, temporarily shelved after an episode omitted references to the slaveholding past of Ben Affleck's ancestor at the actor's request, will return to public television for its third season in January.
  
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• Demo contractor convicted in Philadelphia building collapse

  19-10-2015 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A demolition contractor charged in the deaths of six people buried in debris from a building collapse was found guilty Monday of involuntary manslaughter.
  
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• 'Whitey' Bulger's lover pleads not guilty to contempt charge

  19-10-2015 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The longtime girlfriend and fugitive companion of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger pleaded not guilty Monday to a contempt charge for refusing to say whether other people helped him during his 16 years on the run.
  
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• Photos: Chrissy Teigen Shows Off Her Baby Bump

  19-10-2015 20:58 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Celebrity Baby Boom
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra approves 1-year musicians contract

  19-10-2015 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Orchestra has approved a one-year contract that gives its musicians a 3 percent raise.
  
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• Morgan Stanley's trading rout sets grim tone for fourth quarter

  19-10-2015 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chief Executive James Gorman was put on the defensive after a 42 percent slide in bond trading, one of its worst performances since the financial crisis, and a drop in its private-equity business sent net income skidding. "We're by no means complacent about this," Gorman told analysts after the forecast-lagging results. Gorman said recent management changes, such as the promotion of global equities head Ted Pick to oversee all of trading, would allow better coordination between the firm's bond a
  
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• Boy, 6, kills brother: Dad charged

  19-10-2015 20:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The father of a 3-year-old boy has been jailed and charged with felony child endangerment after his 6-year-old son accidentally shot and killed his younger brother, Chicago police said.
  
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• Thousands mass in Dresden for anti-migrant rally, counter-protest

  19-10-2015 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of people massed Monday in the eastern German city of Dresden to mark the first anniversary of the anti-migrant movement PEGIDA, but almost as many came out in counter-protest. Carrying placards with images such as a picture of burqa-wearing women with a big cross over it, or slogans like "Go Merkel: you give the Judas kiss", PEGIDA supporters gathered in downtown Dresden, the birthplace of the movement, chanting "resistance, resistance!". PEGIDA works," said co-founder of the movement
  
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• VIDEO: Prince William urges end to ivory trade

  19-10-2015 20:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prince William has called for an end to the illegal trade in ivory, during an official visit to China.
  
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• U.S. fighter jet hit on Afghan mission

  19-10-2015 20:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An American F-16 took fire over Afghanistan last Tuesday, forcing the pilot to make an unscheduled landing.
  
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• Police say Detroit pastor released after fatal shooting

  19-10-2015 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A pastor who shot and killed a man who tried to attack him with a brick during a service at his storefront church was released without charge, Detroit police said Monday.
  
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• Big Ben ready to toll for NFL Steelers

  19-10-2015 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is planning to make his comeback from injury this week after missing the last three games with a knee sprain. Roethlisberger said he plans to practice this week with his knee heavily strapped and aims to be fit for Sunday's trip to Missouri to face the Kansas City Chiefs. "We're going to tape it and brace it and I'm going to see what I can do," said Roethlisberger.
  
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• Demo contractor accused in Philadelphia building collapse convicted of 6 manslaughter counts

  19-10-2015 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Demo contractor accused in Philadelphia building collapse convicted of 6 manslaughter counts.
  
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• Syrian rebels say they receive more weapons for Aleppo battle

  19-10-2015 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Perry and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Rebels battling the Syrian army and its allies near Aleppo said on Monday they had received new supplies of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles from states opposed to President Bashar al-Assad since the start of a major government offensive last week. The rebels from three groups contacted by Reuters said new supplies had arrived in response to the attack by the army, which is backed up by Russian air strikes and on the ground by Iranian fig
  
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• US basketball coach Krzyzewski planning Rio swansong

  19-10-2015 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  United States basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski said Monday he plans to step down after next year's Rio Olympics. Krzyzewski, currently the head coach at Duke University, coached the US to back-to-back gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics but told ESPN he wanted to quit after Rio. It definitely is," Krzyzewski said when asked if this would be his final spell with USA Basketball.
  
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• Sanders planning 'major speech' on democratic socialism

  19-10-2015 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OSKALOOSA, Iowa (AP) — Bernie Sanders is planning a "major speech" on democratic socialism. That's the political and economic ideology he embraces in his campaign for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
  
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• Exclusive: Clinton urges U.S. regulators to examine Daraprim price hike

  19-10-2015 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday urged U.S. regulators to determine how to bring lower-cost generic drugs to market more swiftly and combat anticompetitive practices in the pharmaceutical industry. Clinton's requests to the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission were prompted by what she called the "egregious actions of Turing Pharmaceuticals," according to letters reviewed by Reuters. The company drew fire
  
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• Discovering India's ancient stepwells

  19-10-2015 20:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Victoria Lautman's travels sound like something straight out of an Indiana Jones movie. Armed with a humble little point-and-shoot camera ("Well, I'm sliding in horrible pits, I need to be able to hold it in my teeth") the Chicago-based adventure-journalist travels across India hunting for ancient, unexplored ruins.
  
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• Fighting near Syria's Aleppo displaces 35,000: U.N.

  19-10-2015 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fighting in Syria has displaced 35,000 people from Hader and Zerbeh on the southwestern outskirts of the city of Aleppo in the past few days, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday. "Many people are living with host families and in the informal settlements near Kafer Naha and Orem al Kubra in countryside west of the city," a spokeswoman said in an emailed comment, citing reports OCHA had received from the area.
  
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• Pentagon admits mistaken forced entry at Afghanistan clinic

  19-10-2015 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military acknowledged Monday that an armored vehicle carrying U.S. personnel deliberately crashed through the closed gate of the compound in northern Afghanistan where 22 people had been killed two weeks ago in a U.S. air attack on a hospital run by Doctors Without Border.
  
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• Crackdown: Amazon sues to stop phony product reviews

  19-10-2015 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is stepping up its fight against bogus product reviews on its site, suing more than 1,000 people for allegedly offering to post glowing write-ups for as little as $5 apiece.
  
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• Egypt attempts to boost election turnout with half-day off

  19-10-2015 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt gave government workers a half-day off on Monday in an attempt to boost low turnout in the first legislative elections since a chamber dominated by Islamists was dissolved by a court ruling in 2012, but there was no sign of increased activity at polling stations.
  
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• United to release plan following CEO's hospitalization

  19-10-2015 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — United Airlines is preparing to release details about how it plans to move forward during the hospitalization of its new CEO, Oscar Munoz.
  
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• Milwaukee man charged with murder in 33-year-old cold case

  19-10-2015 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Milwaukee man has confessed to killing a teenage girl at a party and burying her body under a porch in 1982, a crime that went unsolved until he recently told a local television station and crisis hotline, according to the station and court records. Jose Ferreira, 50, was charged with the second-degree murder of Carrie Ann Jopek, according to a criminal complaint filed on Saturday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. The complaint accused Ferreira of push
  
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• Pistorius: S. Africa readies for release

  19-10-2015 20:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Olympian Oscar Pistorius is set to be released from prison and will be under house arrest as South Africa rekindles its obsession with the murder case. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
  
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• The Latest: Cubs working out Wrigley Field

  19-10-2015 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest on the League Championship Series. The Royals and Blue Jays play Game 3 of the ALCS in Toronto on Monday night. The Mets and Cubs play Game 3 of the NLCS in Chicago on Tuesday night. Here's a look at what's happening (all times EDT):
  
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• How China's slowdown weighs on global economy and markets

  19-10-2015 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — What happens to the Chinese economy resounds far beyond Shenzhen and Shanghai.
  
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• Global shares sputter on Morgan Stanley results; oil drops

  19-10-2015 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. markets slipped on Monday after poor quarterly results from Morgan Stanley stoked worries over the health of the world's biggest banks, while data showing weak Chinese economic growth pushed oil prices lower.
  
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• Mideast violence: What's behind it?

  19-10-2015 20:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Erin McLaughlin looks at the new wave of violence between Israeli forces and Palestinians, and the connection to one of Jerusalem's most famous landmarks.
  
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• The Latest: AFP photographer claims attack by Croatia police

  19-10-2015 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TRNOVEC, Croatia (AP) — The latest news as migrants fleeing war or seeking a better life make their way across Europe by the tens of thousands. All times local.
  
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• Spain's public prosecutor pushes for Volkswagen fraud probe

  19-10-2015 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Spain's public prosecutor on Monday asked the country's High Court to investigate Volkswagen for possibile fraud over the pollution-cheating software installed in diesel engines by the German auto giant. Nearly 684,000 diesel cars of the Volkswagen brands -- VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat -- have been sold in Spain in recent years fitted with the pollution-cheating software, according to VW's Spanish unit. A small public sector workers union, Clean Hands, has filed a private criminal complaint against
  
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