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Montreal - Well everyone knew it was only a matter of time. It has been revealed that a teenager has written a software application that unlocks the iPhone restrictions limiting use of the much hyped cellphone to the AT&T network in the US, according to media reports Friday.
George Hotz, 17, said he has unlocked the […]

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At least 41 people have died in two violent fires raging in the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece, officials said Saturday, warning that the death toll could climb as the search goes on for more victims and fires continue to burn.
Hundreds of people were reported to have been trapped in the Peloponnese area by […]

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Aug. 25 - The National Football League suspended Michael Vick indefinitely without pay yesterday, hours after he admitted conspiring to run a dogfighting operation that Commissioner Roger Goodell called “cruel and reprehensible.”
Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended the Atlanta Falcons quarterback indefinitely without pay hours after Vick filed a plea agreement that portrayed him as less involved […]

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The leading Senate Republican on military affairs surprised the White House yesterday by telling President Bush to “pick a number” on how many U.S. troops to bring home from Iraq by Christmas.
Maj Gen Rick Lynch, who heads a division in central Iraq, said security gains would be lost if the advice of a veteran […]

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Reality TV star Nicole Richie was released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department after serving exactly 82 minutes of what was supposed to be a four-day sentence.
Accompanied by her lawyer and boyfriend Joel Madden, the five-months pregnant Richie entered the same jail in Los Angeles, as friend Paris Hilton.
Nicole arrived at 3:15 p.m. […]

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At least eight people were killed in central Mexico by landslides and accidents blamed on the remnants of Hurricane Dean, now a weakening tropical depression that dumped heavy rains, causing devastating damage.
In the state of Puebla, a family of four, including two children, died when a mudslide hit a highway overpass Thursday and crushed […]

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Mexico has reopened two of its three main oil ports following Hurricane Dean, but officials say production remains suspended as they assess the storm’s impact on the industry. The remnants of Hurricane Dean dumped heavy rain across central Mexico on Thursday.
The threat of serious flooding and mudslides remained as the former Category 5 hurricane […]

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LOS ANGELES - California officials on Thursday charged Lindsay Lohan with cocaine possession and drunken driving. The 21-year-old actress, who is in the midst of her third rehab stint of 2007, escaped more serious felony charges that could have landed her in jail for more than a year.
Lohan was arrested in May after wrecking […]

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A prosecutor in southeastern Virginia who is investigating dogfighting allegations against Michael Vick said yesterday he plans to seek additional state charges against the Atlanta Falcons quarterback and his three co-defendants.
Michael Vick can also not make any future plans of playing in the Canadian Football League.
Vick’s speed and sprint-out style look ideal for the […]

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HUNTINGTON, Utah - “This is the last hole,” Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, said Wednesday evening. “If we don’t find anybody alive in that hole, there’s nowhere else that anyone … would know where to drill.”
Rescuers trying to find six miners will begin boring a sixth hole down into Utah’s Crandall Canyon mine […]

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