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Most popular news on 19 August 2009

Bill becomes Category 3 hurricane
Hurricane Bill churned in the Atlantic Ocean toward the west-northwest as a major Category 3 hurricane Tuesday evening.

Disney performer dies after suffering head injury
A Disney stunt performer died Monday night after suffering an injury during a rehearsal, company and local officials said.

Study: Global warming sparked by ancient farming methods
Ancient man may have started global warming through massive deforestation and burning that could have permanently altered the Earth's climate, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.

Most popular news on 18 August 2009

Indicted suspect allegedly breaks record for credit-card data theft
A Florida man already jailed on charges of hacking into major retail computer networks has been indicted a third time for allegedly stealing data on a record number of credit and debit cards.

90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine
The term "dirty money" is for real.

Mozart may have died of strep throat complications
So ill he could not move, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart supposedly sang parts of his final masterpiece, "Requiem," from his deathbed. Two centuries later, the exact cause of the Austrian composer's premature death, in December 1791 at age 35, is still a mystery.