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Call me a buzz kill, call me a scrooge, but 35 years is plenty. At an average of a half-million people, Bostons annual July Fourth event is bloated and unwieldy, now a nationally televised fireworks spectacular complete with nauseatingly cheeky anchor p...

SEOUL (AFP) — South Korean activists Saturday promised to draw one million protesters nationwide in the biggest anti-US beef rallies so far, warning they would use young Christians as "human shields" against riot police.

Rallies in Seoul and several other cities were due to start at 5:00 pm (0800 GMT) as campaigners bid to keep alive a two-month series of sometimes violent protests...

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TORONTO - Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSX:TD) disclosed Friday a $96-million loss caused by "incorrectly priced" financial investments at its operations in London.

Enlarge Photo Norm Betts/Bloomberg News Canada’s second-largest lender, said one of its traders in London incorrectly priced credit derivatives,...

Rescuers fought strong currents in the Sava River in southeastern Slovenia as they searched for five people still missing after two canoes were crushed running over a dam. Divers had already recovered six bodies.

Three people managed to swim ashore after their boats crumpled, overturned and capsized, but two of them died in hospital, raising the confirmed death toll to eight, according to...

Once Mr. Socha started cooking for his own family, "he could take anything in the refrigerator and whip something out of it," said his wife of 45 years, Rose Socha, of Lilburn.

But there was nothing thrown together in his presentation. Mr. Socha approached cooking like the skilled craftsman that he was.

"If he made soup, he would cut up every vegetable so perfectly that you'd swear...

LONDON (AFP) — Police arrested a man on Saturday in connection with the murder of two French students found brutally stabbed to death in a burnt out London flat.

The 21-year-old suspect was arrested in the street at 3:40 am (0240 GMT) and was being held in custody at a police station in southeast London. He is the first suspect to be arrested in the investigation.

"Our appeal...

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This is probably akin to saying "technology has progressed immensely since the dawn of civilization."

Maybe s...

LIMA (AFP) — A Canadian-led team of archaeologists has unearthed the 1,700 year-old tomb of a leader of the pre-Columbian Moche culture in northern Peru, the scientists said.

Canadian archaeologist Steve Bourget said the tomb was discovered in the Ucupe dig 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Chiclayo on Peru's northern coastal plain.

The leader's remains were found, decorated wi...

ALSO like Tovey, Wilkins (who coincidentally can play the tuba as well) had a less than privileged upbringing, as the child of a single mother in a housing project, that keeps him centered. A trained cellist, he didn't have a private lesson until he got to college.

Yet he said that after being taken to hear the Norfolk (now Virginia) Symphony when he was 8, he decided on the spot that he...

African American Muslims have a role to play when it comes to the widespread Islamophobia (an irrational fear of Islam) that is prevalent in the West. The unfortunate fact is that some Americans see Muslims as a disease to be rooted out. However, as is the case with immunisation, the "disease" can sometimes also be the source of a cure.

African Americans have faced derisive stereotyping b...

QUEBEC — Iconic entertainer Charles Aznavour called the harmony of Canada's French and English cultures "impressive" Saturday, following his appointment as an honorary officer of the Order of Canada.

Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean bestowed the accolade upon the French citizen at her official residence inside the fortified walls of Quebec City's Citadelle.

His eyes glistening afte...

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News National News National General Nation of binge drinkers HEATH GILMORE 6/07/2008 8:00:01 AM

HEALTH authorities will call on GPs and other medical workers to ask patients about their alcohol consumption as a poll reveals that four in five of us think Australia has a binge-drinking culture.

The re...

Hundreds of Zambians, together with local Chinese community, joined in the 2008 Olympic Day Run in cities of Lusaka and Kitwe on Saturday.

The event, hailed as "a great moment of sport, solidarity and celebration" by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge in a good-will message, is held annually in Zambia to commemorate the birth of the modern Olympic Games.

Speakin...

BEIJING (AFP) — As the waves of tourists converge on Beijing over the next month for the Olympics, they will look up to see a stunning new skyline that China's leaders hope will showcase the nation as a modern world power.

Thirty years ago the city was a poverty-stricken backwater studded by a few dull Stalinist monuments grafted onto an ancient and decaying imperial capital.

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