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John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, faces his seventh parole hearing later this week

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John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, faces his seventh parole hearing later this week. Mark David Chapman, now 57, was jailed for 20 years to...
Syrian state TV showed Bashar al-Assad performing prayers in the capital's al-Hamad mosque at the start of the Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of Ramadan

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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has made his first appearance in public since a bomb attack in Damascus last month killed several senior officials. State TV...
Beyoncé's new video shows the 30-year-old singer slipping into a gorgeous white sequinned gown to perform her 2011 track I Was Here for World Humanitarian Day

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Beyoncé's new video shows the 30-year-old singer slipping into a gorgeous white sequinned gown to perform her 2011 track I Was Here for World...
Pink impersonator Zoe Alexander took the rejection a little too personally, resulting in what turned out to be the most shocking audition ever to take place on The X Factor

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Pink impersonator Zoe Alexander took the rejection a little too personally, resulting in what turned out to be the most shocking audition ever to...
A headache can be a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head and neck

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A headache or cephalalgia is a pain anywhere in the region of the head or neck. It can be a symptom of a number...
Heineken has agreed to buy Fraser and Neave's controlling stake in the maker of Tiger beer in a deal worth 5.6 billion Singapore dollars

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Heineken has agreed to buy Fraser and Neave's controlling stake in the maker of Tiger beer in a deal worth 5.6 billion Singapore dollars...
Typhoon Kai-Tak has killed at least 27 people as it swept across northern provinces of Vietnam over the weekend

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Typhoon Kai-Tak has killed at least 27 people as it swept across northern provinces of Vietnam over the weekend, officials have said. Typhoon Kai-Tak made...
Julian Assange has urged the US to end its "witch-hunt" against WikiLeaks, in his first public statement since entering Ecuador's London embassy

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Julian Assange has urged the US to end its "witch-hunt" against WikiLeaks, in his first public statement since entering Ecuador's London embassy. Julian Assange also...
Anti-Japanese protests took place in cities across China after Japan's nationalists raised their country's flag on disputed islands

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Anti-Japanese protests took place in cities across China after Japan's nationalists raised their country's flag on disputed islands. Thousands of people took to the streets...
Mark Shriver has pulled the curtain on some Kennedy family secrets in his new book about his father, Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., A Good Man

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Mark Shriver, who is a prominent member of the Kennedy clan, has pulled the curtain on some family secrets in his new book about...
Skreened.com is obviously trying to cash in on Kristen Stewart's affair with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders

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The backlash against Kristen Stewart has taken a strange turn with a T-shirt company selling tops with “Kristen Stewart Is A Trampire” splashed across...
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy in Beijing after taking refuge there for a week

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Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy in Beijing after taking refuge there for a week and Chinese officials have accused the...
Located in Brussels in Belgium, Nemo 33, the world's deepest swimming pool, contains a whopping 660,500 gallons

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Located in Brussels in Belgium, Nemo 33, the world's deepest swimming pool, contains a whopping 660,500 gallons (2.5 million litres) of non-chlorinated, highly filtered...
Kim Kardashian has seized the limelight again by posting pictures of what she would look like as an alien

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Kim Kardashian has seized the limelight again by posting pictures of what she would look like... as an alien. Kim Kardashian, 31, took some time...
Miss China Yu Wenxia was crowned as Miss World 2012 at the Dongsheng stadium

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Miss China Yu Wenxia was crowned as Miss World 2012 at the Dongsheng stadium in China on Saturday. According to the Straitstimes, last year’s winner...
The Evansville Museum says Picasso glass artwork titled "Seated Woman with Red Hat" was donated to the museum in 1963

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A rare piece of art believed to have been inspired by Pablo Picasso in an Evansville museum, actually turned out to be an original...
The Ecuadorean government said it had granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum because it shared his fears of political persecution

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The Ecuadorean government said it had granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum because it shared his fears of political persecution and the possible consequences...
A 20-year-old man has died at the V Festival in Staffordshire in UK

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A 20-year-old man has died at the V Festival in Staffordshire in UK. Police said security staff at Weston Park was called to a tent...
Julian Assange is expected to make a public statement later on the diplomatic row that has engulfed him since being granted asylum by Ecuador

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to make a public statement later on the diplomatic row that has engulfed him since being granted asylum...