Around 500 people tried to storm Zuccotti Park.

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NYC Police Arrest Occupy Protesters

The Arab League rejects a demand by Syria to alter its plan for ending the country’s conflict, which has left at least 3,500 people dead.

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The UN says at least 3,500 people have been killed in anti-government protests in Syria, as reports emerge of fresh violence in the city of Homs.

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Syria death toll ‘passes 3,500′

About 500 people from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement are arrested as they try to march across New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, police say.

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Hundreds arrested in US protest

Boat sank with 500 people onboard.

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100 Dead in Zanzibar Ferry Disaster

A German teenager who forgot to make the invite for her birthday private on Facebook wound up with quite the surprise: 1,500 people turned up. That’s fewer than the 15,000 people who responded, but was still enough to force the girl to flee her own…

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The E. coli strain that’s infected more than 1,500 people in Germany is a previously unknown and unusually deadly strain, the World Health Organization reports. According to a Chinese laboratory working with German scientists, the contagion is caused…

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E. Coli Strain Is New Mutation

Roughly 1,500 people have been reported missing in Joplin, Missouri, following Sunday’s deadly tornado, a fire department official said Tuesday. The city of Joplin has about 49,000 inhabitants. While the number of missing is alarming, it is possible…

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1,500 Missing in Joplin

Up to 1,500 people objecting to controversial power and wind energy plans in mid Wales are expected at a protest in Cardiff Bay.

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Power protesters head to Senedd

A United Nations-appointed panel said Wednesday that improper disposal of fecal matter at a U.N. peacekeepers’ mission was responsible for the cholera outbreak in Haiti that killed more than 4,500 people and infected some 300,000. The report found that…

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U.N. Linked to Haiti Cholera Outbreak

MUMBAI — Ashok Khade heads a flourishing $32 million construction business in India’s commercial capital, Mumbai. He employs 4,500 people, is building a dockyard for his company, drives a gray BMW and wants to buy a helicopter next year.

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New millionaires hope to serve as role models for India’s lower castes

More than 2,500 people were killed in militant attacks in Pakistan in 2010, while another 900 died in US drone strikes, an independent watchdog says.

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Pakistan militants ‘killed 2,500′

In the largest settlement between a religious order and abuse victims, 500 people who reported sexual and psychological abuse by Jesuit priests will receive $166.1 million in damages from the Society of Jesus’ Pacific Northwest unit and its insurers,…

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Jesuits Pay $166M in Record Settlement

Nearly 2,500 people are now known to have died in the quake and tsunami and thousands more remain unaccounted for.

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VIDEO: Search and rescue goes on in Japan

Nearly 500 people have been found dead due to flooding and mudslides in Brazil, and rescue workers fear many more have been buried. Torrents of rain and mud swept through the Serrana region around 60 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, toppling houses of…

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Death Toll in Brazil Floods Rises