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Most popular news on 25 October 2007 |
Singapore Airlines' A380 makes history
AP - A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 took off on a historic journey Thursday — the first commercial flight by the world's largest jetliner, which boasts luxurious suites enclosed by sliding doors, double beds, a bar and the quietest interior of any plane.
TV host Gary Collins arrested in L.A.
AP - TV host and actor Gary Collins was arrested for investigation of misdemeanor driving under the influence after a traffic accident that police blamed on another motorist, an 89-year-old man. Collins, 69, was booked after the Tuesday crash in the San Fernando Valley, said police Officer April Harding.
Images show suspicious facility in Syria
AP - Commercial satellite images show construction in Syria that resembles the early stages of a small North Korean-model nuclear reactor, a report said Wednesday, speculating that it was the site hit last month by an Israeli airstrike.
Calif. fire crews aided by easing winds
AP - A merciful easing of the winds fueling Southern California's sprawling wildfires finally gave fire crews a chance to fight back against some blazes Wednesday, and weary residents could take solace in an overriding sign of hope: Just one person has died from the flames.
More than 755,000 on US terrorist watch list
AFP - The US terrorist watch list includes more than 755,000 names and continues to grow, the US Government Accountability Office said Wednesday.
Israel power cuts to answer Gaza rockets
AP - Israel unveiled a new tactic Wednesday aimed at deterring Palestinians from firing rockets out of the Gaza Strip — it will cut off Gaza's electricity bit by bit as a pressure tactic every time rockets hit Israeli territory.
California fires rage on but crews make progress
Reuters - Wildfires that have charred a huge
swath of California and destroyed 1,300 homes burned into the
night on Wednesday, but firefighters said a break in the
weather had given them a chance to go on the offensive.
Well, you don't see something like this every day
Reuters - An Australian barmaid has been fined
for crushing beer cans between her bare breasts while an
off-duty colleague has been fined for hanging spoons from her
friend's nipples, police said Wednesday.
Maria Shriver won't return to NBC News
AP - Maria Shriver said she won't resume her TV news career and the late Anna Nicole Smith is the reason why.
Home sales plunge by 8 percent
AP - Sales of existing homes had a record decline in September while median home prices fell by the largest amount in nearly a year, reflecting deepening problems in the troubled housing market.
Prostitutes sew lips together in Bolivia protest
Reuters - Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El
Alto sewed their lips together on Wednesday as part of a hunger
strike to demand that the mayor reopen brothels and bars
ordered closed after violent protests by residents last week.
Turkish planes pound rebels along border
AP - Turkish warplanes and helicopter gunships reportedly pounded Kurdish rebel positions along the Turkey-Iraq border Wednesday, broadening military operations against insurgents amid persistent fears Turkey will launch a major offensive inside Iraq.
MAN'S CONSTANT ATTENTION IS TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: I know I should be telling the world how lucky I am and I should be happy, but I'm miserable. I am a 30-something mother of two, recently divorced.
Scranton, Pa., to host 'Office' party
AP - As Michael Scott, the clueless boss on NBC's "The Office," would say, "ain't no party like a Scranton party."
Abortion doctor wants grand jury stopped
AP - One of the nation's few late-term abortion providers is asking Kansas' highest court to block a grand jury investigation of him and his Wichita clinic that was initiated by anti-abortion groups.
Cell phone message warns train gropers
AP - Did you just grope me? Shall we head to the police? That's the message women are flashing on their cell phones with a popular program designed to ward off wandering hands in Japan's congested commuter trains.
Osmond stays, Cuban is voted off `Stars'
AP - Marie Osmond was down, but she's still a competitor on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
Mom helps cheerleaders grab boys' beer
AP - A woman let her teenage daughter lean out of a moving van to take beer from a vehicle that was driving alongside on a southeastern Nebraska highway, authorities said Wednesday.
Microsoft beats Google to Facebook stake
Reuters - Microsoft Corp beat out Google
Inc on Wednesday in a battle to invest in socializing
Web site Facebook, agreeing to pay $240 million for a 1.6
percent stake in the Web phenomenon.
HAVE YOU HUGGED AN ISLAMO-FACIST TODAY?
Ann Coulter - College liberals are in a fit of pique because various speakers are coming to their campuses this week as part of David Horowitz's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week -- not to be confused with Islamo-Fascism Appreciation Week, which I believe is in April.
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