Dozens more rape victims have had their compensation payments cut because they had been drinking when they were attacked, it emerged yesterday.
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A-Rod's emotional connection to Madonna may have been more powerful than sex.
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Hillary Clinton summoned millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House, declaring in a DNC speech that the man who defeated her "is my candidate and he must be our president."
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US rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight is arrested for assault and drugs charges, Las Vegas police say.
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AP - Marion "Suge" Knight was jailed Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife near the Las Vegas Strip, police said.

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As Italian Vogue's July issue features all black models, will U.S. mags follow?
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The Government denied today that it was routinely cutting the compensation paid to rape victims known to have been drinking heavily, insisting that 14 cases in which payments were reduced had been based on a misunderstanding of the guidelines.
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So-called '$100 laptop,' now $200, starts rolling off assembly lines in China.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will let customers, academics and even rivals build customized Web search services on top of its own technology, introducing a resale model into a major Internet market where it ranks a distant No. 2 to Google Inc.

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Forget the rising price of gas or food. None of these can hold a candle to debt which compounds monthly. If you're in debt, the best thing to do is to pay it off as quickly as possible. The longer you wait, the more excessive it can become.
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In the first ruling of its kind, Judge Jeremy Fogel held that copyright owners must consider fair use before sending takedown notices.
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The oil giant will still sell gasoline to branded distributors, but will phase out company-owned stations.
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Caleb Campbell was a day away from practicing with the Detroit Lions and taking a step toward his dream of playing in the NFL. 'He was issued a helmet, ready to go,' coach Rod Marinelli said Wednesday. Now, Campbell is closer to joining his fellow West Point graduates in Iraq or Afghanistan.

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bolivia's soccer team was given a reprieve from what it calls soccer apartheid when the sport's world governing body on Tuesday suspended its ban on internationals played at high altitude.

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The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle and station complex shook hands and hugged goodbye as the doors swung shut between their spacecraft on the eve of undocking.
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Syria already boasts some of the world's best food - now it can also claim the world's largest restaurant.
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I was amused and impressed by some of the comments to my article on "The High Price of a Well-Wired Life ".
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Authorities say the wreck happened 15 minutes into the race along a highway.
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