Topic: NEWS english - on May 30, 2004 at 5:18:00 PM CEST
Surfer reports great white shark attack
Butch Connor says he was surfing off the north side of the beach when the shark swam straight at him and knocked him into the water. Connor fought back, hitting the shark with his board until it swam away.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 29, 2004 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
Coffee Prices Have Biggest Weekly Gain Since 1999 on Brazil Supply Concern
Coffee futures in New York soared 18 percent this week, the biggest gain in more than four years, as speculators increased purchases at the beginning of winter in Brazil, the world's largest grower.
Hedge-fund purchases increased amid forecasts for colder weather to reach southern growing areas of Brazil. Forecaster Meteorlogix LLC said temperatures will start to warm next week. Coffee futures have climbed 41 percent in the past year as Brazil's output fell following a record crop last year.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 27, 2004 at 1:51:00 PM CEST
Used Underwear...Get Your Used Underwear...
In the latest act of sanitizing New York's mean streets, lawmakers want to rid the city of a scourge most people are not even aware of -- previously worn lingerie being sold as new merchandise.
Council members are mulling the proposed legislation after watching a local television news broadcast which claimed leading department stores, including Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy's, had tried to resell returned undergarments.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 27, 2004 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Three Brothers Hang for $2.69 Murders
Three brothers were hanged in Pakistan Tuesday for murdering two brothers from another family after a dispute over less than three dollars, officials said.
President Pervez Musharraf had rejected mercy appeals from the condemned men who were executed in Mianwali prison in central Punjab province.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 27, 2004 at 12:45:00 PM CEST
Revealed: how food firms target children
Methods used by the food industry to target children, bypassing parents and deploying "viral marketing" and "underground communication" have been uncovered by the Guardian on the day MPs publish a damning account of the government's "woefully inadequate" response to obesity.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 27, 2004 at 12:39:00 PM CEST
America's top toilet named
Dingy gas station bathrooms be gone! Messy restrooms known to cause mental unrest no more!
The potty that takes the pot, the most luxurious latrine, the crème de la crème of lavatories, yes, the No. 1 restroom in America has been picked.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 26, 2004 at 11:10:00 PM CEST
Florida Rolf is back
German Retiree Forced Home from Florida Beach Pad
A German pensioner living in a Florida beach pad paid for out of his $2,200 monthly social security payments has been forced to return to Germany after the government cut his benefit, authorities said Tuesday.
The former banker, who left Germany in 1979 saying living in the country made him depressed, has a doctor's certificate of disability and was granted the money because he lacked independent financial means, Frankfurt social welfare said.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 26, 2004 at 10:37:00 PM CEST
Man Dies After Picking Up Snakes Ordered Online
Authorities in Arkansas are trying to find out if a man in Little Rock ended up dying from bites from poisonous snakes he had ordered on the Internet.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 26, 2004 at 10:29:00 PM CEST
Italy Announces Pizza-Making Guidelines
Pizza-makers beware - Italy has outlined specific guidelines to protect the real Neapolitan pizza from bogus copies.
The regulations by the Agriculture Ministry touch on everything from size to ingredients to the type of oven. They will enable rule-abiding restaurants in Italy to get a special label attesting that real pizza can be eaten there.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 25, 2004 at 9:54:00 PM CEST
Has Rumsfeld Banned Camera Phones in Iraq?
Lots of media outlets have been reporting that Rumsfeld has decided to ban camera phones in Iraq, in the wake of the photos of prisoner abuse coming out of Abu Ghraib.
The Sydney Morning Herald refers to some British newspaper called The Business. But what's that? Is there such a paper? The story actually seems to come from The Daily Farce, an online satirical magazine who printed the story (as a joke) about two weeks ago.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 25, 2004 at 8:08:00 PM CEST
Deutsche Telekom acquires US mobile networks
Deutsche Telekom plans to splash out $2.5bn (£1.4bn) to acquire mobile phone networks in California and Nevada. The networks in question were jointly own by T-Mobile USA and the US mobile communications company, Cingular Wireless, following a deal back in 2001.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 25, 2004 at 4:03:00 PM CEST
Miss Universe 004 Contestants : countdown begins
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Looking at the popularity and the volume of business the Miss Universe contest generates today, nobody can imagine that it all started from a local bathing beauty competition.
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