Jenny Tomasin, a British actress forever known to hundreds of millions of television viewers as the clumsy, disheveled, Valentino-obsessed kitchen maid Ruby Finch in “Upstairs, Downstairs,” has died at her home in London. Read full article > >

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Police describe the rape of a 75-year-old woman in her home in Greater Manchester by a man who forced his way in as a “despicable” crime.

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Eva Zeisel, who designed and produced stylish but simple lines of tableware that were credited with bringing a sense of serenity to American dinnertime, died Dec. 30 at her home in New City, N.Y. Mrs. Zeisel was 105 and had come to America just before World War II, after a harrowing series of adventures in the turbulent Europe of the 1930s. Read full article > >

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LONDON — When Ann Marie Kennedy tried to update her Facebook profile in June, she naively assumed she could add her home town in a few simple clicks. She is from Effin, Ireland. Months later, Facebook still stubbornly refuses to accept the name of her birthplace. When she tries to update her home town, she is ambushed by similar-sounding options like Effingham, Ill., and Effingham, S.C. Read full article > >

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Anne McCaffrey, the prolific science fiction and fantasy author who was best known for her “Dragonriders of Pern” novels, has died of a stroke at her home in Ireland. She was 85. McCaffrey is celebrated for the new worlds she created in her fiction, such as in the “Dragonriders of Pern” — where a whole society is based on dragon-riding, and in “The Ship Who Sang ” — in which a starship’s functions are controlled entirely by a severely disabled girl. Read full article > >

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TRIPOLI — As a senior official in Libya’s National Oil Corp., she wrote 50 letters denouncing massive corruption within her own organization, including three to longtime leader Moammar Gaddafi’s powerful son Saif al-Islam. For her troubles, Najwa Al Beshti was demoted, suspended without pay, interrogated by intelligence agents at her home, and received three death threats. Read full article > >

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A 54-year-old man is charged with the murder of Angelika Dries-Jenkins, a week after her body was found at her home in Narberth, Pembrokeshire.

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Claudia Millan, 29, was less than a block from her home when she was struck in the head, the police said.

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A jury has cleared two New York City police officers in the rape of a woman in December 2008. The woman had been brought home by the officers after a night of drinking, and said she was assaulted at her home in Manhattan’s East Village. Both denied the…

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In 1988, an accident in her home erased Su Meck’s memory. After 23 years of relearning her life, the Gaithersburg woman has earned a degree from Montgomery College. Read full article > >

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A 10-year-old girl struck by lightning while at the window of her home in Merthyr Tydfil amazes doctors with her speedy recovery.

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A man who murdered an 89-year-old woman in her home while under the influence of drugs is jailed for life.

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HMS Cumberland returns to her home port of Plymouth after her final deployment in which she helped evacuate refugees from Libya to Malta.

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HMS Cumberland makes final return

Newsnight hears from both supporters and critics of Ms Palin in her home state of Alaska, about whether they think she should run for president.

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Newsnight hears from both supporters and critics of Ms Palin in her home state of Alaska, about whether they think she should run for president.

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VIDEO: Should Palin run for president?