Shoes get lost, knees get scraped, backpacks get spilled. So on some days, members of the Denicore family get to school a minute or two late. That’s not ideal, Mark and Amy Denicore admit. But, they wonder, is it a crime? Read full article > >

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Parents say Loudoun officials reaching too far to stop school tardies

BP must cover some but not all of oil rig owner Transocean’s liabilities for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a US judge rules.

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BP must cover some but not all of oil rig owner Transocean’s liabilities for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a US judge rules.

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BP must cover some but not all of oil rig owner Transocean’s liabilities for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a US judge rules.

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A cargo ship which ran aground off the coast of New Zealand three months ago breaks in in two, spilling containers and other debris into the sea.

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Brazil fines US oil giant Chevron $5.4m (£3.5m) for breach of its environmental licence when it tackled an oil spill in November.

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In 1980, Abraham Karem, an engineer who had emigrated from Israel , retreated into his three-car garage in Hacienda Heights outside Los Angeles and, to the bemusement of his tolerant wife, began to build an aircraft. The work eventually spilled into the guest room, and when Karem finished more than a year later, he wheeled into his driveway an odd, cigar-shaped craft that was destined to change the way the United States wages war. Read full article > >

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Rise of the drone: From Calif. garage to multibillion-dollar defense industry

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde is calling on countries outside Europe to help battle the region’s financial crisis , warning that the debt problems could drag down nations elsewhere by spilling over into global trade and international bank lending. “International support, solidarity, needs to be present,” Lagarde said in an interview last week assessing her first six months at the International Monetary Fund, a period of mounting turmoil in Europe. Read full article > >

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BEIRUT — Turkey’s prime minister on Tuesday called for the first time for Bashar al-Assad to step down, in a fiery speech that likened the Syrian leader to Hitler and Mussolini and marked the final crumbling of Turkish-Syrian relations, according to analysts. “Without spilling any more blood, without causing any more injustice, for the sake of peace for the people, the country and the region, finally step down,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urging Assad to look to the fate of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, who was toppled by an internationally backed uprising and, last month, was killed . Read full article > >

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The Brazilian government says it will fine US oil company Chevron $28m (£17.9m) for causing an oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

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US oil company Chevron accepts full responsibility for an oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.

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Chevron says a spill in the Campo Basin off the southeast coast has almost dissipated, but investigators are threatening fines and prison terms if they find violations.

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A female Frostburg State University student died early Sunday morning after another female student stabbed her in the head during an argument that spilled out of an off-campus dwelling, police said. Police found Kortneigh McCoy, a 19-year-old sophomore from Baltimore, lying in the street near the small-town western Maryland campus sometime before 2 a.m. McCoy was bleeding from a head wound, according to a release from Allegany County investigators. She died from her injuries at a local hospital. Read full article > >

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Two lanes of the M25 reopen after a diesel spill from a lorry caused 19-mile tailbacks and delays of up to three hours in Surrey and Kent.

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LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Monday that financial problems may lead to the closure of the notorious secret-spilling site at the end of this year. “If WikiLeaks does not find a way to remove this blockade we will simply not be able to continue by the turn of the new year,” he said. “If we don’t knock down the blockade we simply will not be able to continue.” Read full article > >

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