The discovery was as shocking as it was horrific: a camera with explicit photos of a child who attended Washington National Cathedral’s exclusive Beauvoir elementary school, which caters to some of the area’s most powerful families. Read full article > >
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Former D.C. teacher makes FBI ‘Most Wanted’ list after 2008 child porn discovery
More than 200 cases of measles are confirmed on Merseyside in the largest outbreak in the area since 1988, the Health Protection Agency says.
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Measles outbreak tops 200 cases
For the first time a space shuttle is landing in New York, but not before circling slowly over the area at low altitude to give viewers a glimpse.
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City Room: Space Shuttle Arives in New York
The 1956 quasi documentary “On the Bowery,” which filmed the area’s characters, bars and flophouses, is finally being released on DVD.
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Crime Scene: ‘On the Bowery,’ on DVD, Captures a Grittier Time
Backers of a “geopark” in the Highlands are continuing with efforts to promote its geology after the area lost its Unesco recognition.
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New work at status loss ‘geopark’
Bad weather around Nepal’s iconic Mount Everest has stranded more than 1,500 trekkers in the area of a town near the mountain.
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Trekkers stranded near Mount Everest
About 2,000 people, including tourists, are stranded in the foothills of Mount Everest because bad weather has halted flights in the area, officials say.
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Everest trekkers stranded by fog
Petrol receipts link a man accused of murdering a County Antrim schoolgirl with the area where her body was found floating in a dam, a court hears.
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Petrol ‘link to child’s murder’
Demand to buy in South Street Seaport’s residential enclave is so strong that the area is emerging as a separate neighborhood.
Hundreds of storm-hit seabirds are stranded on the Pembrokeshire coast leading to the biggest rescue operation in the area since the Sea Empress disaster in 1996.
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Birds rescued as storm sweeps in
A bereaved father’s plea for calm in Birmingham helped to quieten tensions in the area, the chief constable of West Midlands Police says.
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Police praise for father’s words
A levee breach along the swollen Missouri River prompted the evacuation Sunday of about 600 people in the area between the river and Hamburg, Iowa, officials said.
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Missouri levee ‘boil’ forces evacuations
Nervous anticipation. That is the feeling permeating through Vicksburg, Mississippi, as it awaits a historic flood crest to wash through the area later this week.
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Flood zones ‘taking one’ for America
Osama bin Laden may have hated America, but he loved its soft drinks: Local shopkeepers say that people from Bin Laden’s compound regularly bought Pepsi, Coke, and other popular brands in bulk. A shopkeeper in the area was “curious” why they bought…
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Bin Laden Loved Pepsi
Even though a final plan for dealing with the severely damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant isn’t in place, officials say they’ll start searching for bodies near the complex. Police in protective gear are swarming the area, which has been off limits…
Former D.C. teacher makes FBI ‘Most Wanted’ list after 2008 child porn discovery
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