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Tough desert life wins Bedouin teen fairy tale award
Aug 16th, 2012
It was the trauma of seeing Israeli troops raze homes in the Bedouin community where she lives that inspired 14-year-old Salha Hamadin to write an award-winning fairy tale. (Source: AFP) -
LONDON (Reuters) - MPs on Tuesday rejected an amendment to the coalition government's Energy Bill which would have locked the power sector into tough carbon cuts from 2014, two years earlier than planned, and limited new gas plants after 2020. The amendment proposed that the government set a decarbonisation goal for electricity generation for ... [Full Article]
By Mariam Karouny QUSAIR, Syria (Reuters) - Apart from a bullet-scarred clock tower that somehow survived the battle, few buildings still stood on Wednesday in the ruined streets of the former rebel stronghold of Qusair, seized hours earlier by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces. A Syrian flag, planted on top of the tower by one of the ... [Full Article]
NEW YORK - An extremely humanlike robot made a public appearance today (June 15) here at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress, a futuristic conference focused on the technological singularity. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A 25-year-old contestant from Connecticut won the title of Miss USA in Las Vegas on Sunday night. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Barbara Liston SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A judge's decision to sequester jurors for the murder trial of a Florida neighborhood watchman who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in 2012 will slow down an already painstaking selection process to find impartial minds amid saturation media coverage. Jury selection in the racially-charged case... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - The reviews are in: It was a great Tony Awards. The dancing was inspired, the singing top-notch and the humor sly - and that's just for the host. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
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