This seems like something they should have already been doing. Match.com has announced plans to start screening its users to see if they have a history of being sex offenders. A customer recently brought a lawsuit against the site, claiming she was…
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Match.com to Screen for Sex Offenders
Archaeologists hope to solve a mystery over the site of William Shakespeare’s last home.
Archaeologists surveying the ground at Liverpool Street station in preparation for Crossrail tunnelling have unearthed hundreds of skeletons on the site of a historic mental health hospital.
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VIDEO: Workmen unearth Bedlam mass grave
About half the buses clocked by radar near the site of a crash that killed 15 people exceeded the speed limit, most by only a few miles per hour.
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Taking a Radar Gun to a Crash Site, and Finding Buses on Good Behavior
Planners give their backing to a supermarket on the site of a controversial £50m scheme in Ceredigion.
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Planners back Sainsbury’s store
The head of the US state department’s Japan desk is replaced after he made disparaging remarks about Okinawa, the site of US military bases.
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US diplomat removed over Okinawa
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday ordered the Army to send four battalions of soldiers to the country’s northern borderlands, the site of increasing violence fueled by the drug trade.
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Mexico to put more troops near border
Jon Petrovich greenlighted funding for CNN.com in 1994 and became known as its “Godfather,” a title he relished as the site became the most-read news site in the world.
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CNN.com’s ‘Godfather’ dies at 63
Jon Petrovich greenlighted funding for CNN.com in 1994 and became known as its “Godfather,” a title he relished as the site became the most-read news site in the world.
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CNN.com’s ‘Godfather’ dies at 63
Birds living around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident have 5% small brains, an effect directly linked to lingering background radiation.
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Chernobyl birds are small brained
Mystery surrounds the apparent hacking of a Facebook page used by hundreds of thousands of fans of the site’s founder.
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Mystery over Facebook ‘hacking’
It looks like anarchists may be to blame for today’s mail-bomb attacks in Rome. A written claim by the Italian Anarchist Federation was found at the site of one of the two bombed embassies. Italian authorities had suspected anarchists were responsible…
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Italian Anarchists Claim Embassy Attacks
A faded mill town in Connecticut is the site of an experiment in breaking down boundaries between Web and print journalism, and journalists and their readers.
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Our Towns: Walk In, Grab a Muffin and Watch a Newspaper Reinvent Itself
With Facebook’s prominence on the Web, the site’s role as an arbiter of free speech is likely to become even more pronounced.
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Facebook Wrestles With Free Speech and Civility
The United States urged Switzerland not to provide safe haven for the site’s founder, who was accepting donations to a bank account there.
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