THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The International Court of Justice heard arguments Monday by Bosnia accusing Serbia of genocide, the first time a state has faced trial for humanity’s worst crime. The hearings come 13 years after Bosnia filed the lawsuit against Serbia-Montenegro — the successor state for the defunct Yugoslavia …
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NEW YORK – Vanderbilt emergency room Dr. Travis Stork kept it close to home by picking Nashville kindergarten teacher Sarah Stone in the season finale of ABC’s “The Bachelor: Paris.” Stork presented her with a diamond ring on a necklace. Sarah: “You’re so perfect for me.” Travis: “You’re the one …
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TEHRAN, Iran – A prominent Iranian newspaper opened a competition Monday seeking cartoons about the Holocaust in what it called a test of whether the West would be as supportive of freedom of expression over Nazi genocide as it was with caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Hamshahri, one of Iran’s …
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NEW YORK – A television writer has filed a lawsuit saying Jennifer Lopez and UPN stole his idea for a series based on his move from Brooklyn to Miami and involvement with the modeling and nightclub scenes. Jack Bunick’s lawsuit claims “South Beach,” a TV series executive-produced by Lopez that …
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Emergency workers on Saturday recovered the flight-data recorder and the bodies of 19 people who died when their plane exploded on impact in a crash in a mountainous region outside Rio de Janeiro. Remains of the victims were brought to the city’s morgue for identification. …
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This is a partial transcript from “Hannity & Colmes,” April 21, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Amid allegations that Duke lacrosse players raped a stripper on March 13, the Duke lacrosse coach of 16 years, Mike Pressler, has resigned, and the university has decided to …
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NEW YORK – Teenage author Kaayva Viswanathan has acknowledged taking material from fellow novelist Megan McCafferty, but says the borrowing was an accident. McCafferty’s publisher doesn’t believe her. “We think there are simply too many many instances of ‘borrowing’ for this to have been unintentional,” Steve Ross, senior vice president …
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SAN DIEGO – Lobbyist and former GOP Rep. Brian Bilbray will face Democrat Francine Busby in a June runoff to fill the House seat left vacant by jailed former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham. A count of several thousand last-minute absentee and provisional ballots Thursday widened Bilbray’s second-place lead over millionaire …
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The MSN team is working on a new Windows Live service, code-named Live Drive, that will provide users with a virtual hard drive for storing hosted personal data. Microsoft archrival Google is developing similar technology, code-named Gdrive, according to information Google accidentally shared with analysts in early March. Google’s Gdrive …
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