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Alabama judge orders man to jail for sagging pants

A central Alabama judge ordered a man to serve three days in jail for contempt of court for wearing so-called saggy pants.

Twenty-year-old LaMarcus D. Ramsey was in Autauga County Circuit Court on Tu

Nude maid service raising eyebrows in Texas city

Police in this staunchly conservative West Texas city are keeping close tabs on a young entrepreneur's recently opened cleaning service that offers nude maids.

Lubbock police Sgt. Jonathan Stewart sa

It's everyone for himself on sinking ships

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A hundred years after the Titanic sank, two Swedish researchers on Thursday said when it comes to sinking ships, male chivalry is ‘a myth’ and more men generally survive such disasters than women and

Syria scuttles truce plan with new demands

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A U.N.-brokered plan to stop the bloodshed in Syria effectively collapsed on Sunday after President Bashar Assad's government raised new, last-minute demands that the country's largest rebel group swi

Rocket in position at launch pad in North Korea

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North Korean space officials have moved all three stages of a long-range rocket into position for a controversial launch, vowing Sunday to push ahead with their plan in defiance of international warni

Ahead of nuclear talks, Iran floats compromise

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Iran's nuclear chief signaled Tehran's envoys may bring a compromise offer to the talks this week with world powers: Promising to eventually stop producing its most highly enriched uranium, while not

Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interrogator, dies

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"Mike Wallace is here to see you."

The ‘60 Minutes’ journalist's reputation as a pitiless inquisitor was so fearsome that it was often said that those were the most dreaded words in the English langu

Iraq: Video appears to show top Saddam deputy

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A video posted online Saturday purports to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime still at large, lashing out against Iraq's Shiite-led government.

Cruise ship to retrace voyage of Titanic

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A cruise carrying relatives of some of the more than 1,500 people who died aboard the Titanic nearly 100 years ago set sail from England on Sunday to retrace the ship's voyage, including a visit to th

Huh? US and British English to collide at Olympics

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The lorry driver taking kit to the football pitch was so knackered he pulled into the lay-by near the petrol station for a quick kip.

Huh?

For American readers, that translates as: The truck driver

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.