Topic: NEWS english - on June 18, 2004 at 3:21:00 PM CEST
Bono lights up despite smoking ban
Rock and roll ain't what it used to be. U2 frontman Bono has apologised -- for having a cigarette. The breach of Ireland's new smoking ban was committed last week during a night out with Californian rockers The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 18, 2004 at 3:19:00 PM CEST
Crime show is victim of thieves
Guy Ritchie's TV show Swag, which aims to catch thieves red-handed on hidden cameras, has had thousands of pounds worth of camera equipment stolen.
Burglars took the items from a London edit suite on Wednesday night after producers had been finishing off the second series of the Five show.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 18, 2004 at 3:17:00 PM CEST
Bear's hospital visit turns fatal
A black bear ended up with more than a sore head when it activated automatic doors and wandered into a US hospital.
Startled doctors, nurses and patients saw the 345lb (156kg) animal walking through the emergency ward and into an office full of computers.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 18, 2004 at 3:13:00 PM CEST
Teenager causes car-jet crash
Two Texas teenagers escaped serious injury Tuesday in a bizarre car-plane crash that caused an estimated $1 million damage to a private jet owned by Constellation Brands wine company.
The accident occurred when 33-year-old Antoinette Y. Bailey of Manorville, Suffolk County, left her niece, Kayla Wiltz, 13, of Houston, and a friend, Annessa John, 13, of Missouri City, Texas, in a car while she went into the office at the Penn Yan Airport shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday, said Yates County Sheriff's Investigator Marty Reynolds.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 18, 2004 at 3:05:00 PM CEST
BRITNEY WEDDING-BELLS BUZZ
BRITNEY Spears seems ready to walk down the aisle again.
The pop tart, who just had to call off her Onyx Hotel Tour due to a bad knee injury, moved her dancer boyfriend, Kevin Federline, lock, stock and trucker hat into her New York and Beverly Hills homes after her arthroscopic surgery early last week. Now the buzz is that Federline has popped the question and Spears is said to have accepted his offer.
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Topic: Terror - on June 18, 2004 at 1:26:00 PM CEST
Xtreme A.D.S. or XADS
Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems, creator and developer of the StunStrike, Directed Energy, Non-lethal Weapon System, introduces the StunStrike CQSR (Close Quarters Shock Rifle). XADS received SBIR Phase 1 and Phase 2 R&D contracts through the US Marine Corps for non-lethal weapons development. The goal was to develop a non-lethal, neuromuscular disruptor which works through the air without need of wires or direct contact to have an effect.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 18, 2004 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
XP SP2 release candidate, No not for you pirate
The new Service pack contains tons of bug fixes, security enhancements and more. The build 2149 which is only available to Beta testers registered with Microsoft, and will be provided "soon" to an open pool of technical testers.
New features include, Firewall on by default, browser, email and memory protection, and better wireless experience. Pirated copies will not be able to install it, as Microsoft released earlier.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 18, 2004 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
Lock-down CD scores No.1 hit
Although common in Japan and parts of Europe, lock down CDs have finally landed with a splash in the United States. Bertelsmann Music Group's fourteenth CD to feature the customer-unfriendly measure, Velvet Revolver's Contraband (no, this isn't Spinal Tap, although the group contains lots of old lags) has reached No.1 in the US chart.
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Topic: SEX - on June 18, 2004 at 11:30:00 AM CEST
Panda pregnant after watching panda porn
A female panda named Hua Mei is pregnant after watching hours of videos showing other pandas mating.
This is the latest use of so-called "panda porn" by authorities in China.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 18, 2004 at 11:29:00 AM CEST
Tijuana mayoral candidate sparks criticism by calling woman his favorite animal
An eccentric multimillionaire running for mayor of this rough border city has apologized for saying his favorite animal is "woman."
Jorge Hank Rhon, who has a private zoo with more than 20,000 animals, made the comment during an interview last week with the Mexico City newspaper El Universal.
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Topic: NATURE - on June 18, 2004 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
'House-sized' meteorite hits
A METEORITE reportedly the size of a house fell on the NSW south coast overnight, exploding in a bright flash, police have said. A driver on the Hume Highway shortly after 9pm (AEST) near Menangle reported an object the size of a house falling from the sky.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 18, 2004 at 11:09:00 AM CEST
Police chief's home burgled as he gave crime talk
A police chief's home was burgled while he was giving a talk on crime prevention.
Superintendent Peter West had to dash from the meeting and drive home to comfort his wife Pauline in Folkestone, Kent.
She discovered raiders had grabbed jewellery and personal items from their house.
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