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Yahoo! PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s parliament passed a law Friday which could send adulterers to jail for up to a year. The vote prompted a walkout by opposition lawmakers who said the law carried echoes of the Khmer Rouge and the Taliban in a country which should be tackling poverty and corruption instead of

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Gosh! Let’s hope the terrorists don’t pick up on this one… Britain cracked WW2 secret “dress code” LONDON (Reuters) – German spies hid secret messages in drawings of models wearing the latest fashions in an attempt to outwit Allied censors during World War Two, according to British security service files released on Monday. Nazi agents

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5311298.stm

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Bust Card: Your Rights On Arrest

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Independent He has smuggled fake artwork into Tate Britain, and sprayed a vision of paradise on the Palestinian side of Israel’s “security wall”. Now, the “guerrilla graffiti” artist Banksy has taken aim at the cult of empty celebrity and its current poster child, Paris Hilton. The secretive artist has smuggled 500 doctored copies of Paris

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I’ve signed up with Flickr, and put the pre-accident vacation pictures up there. What do you think?

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Given the number of people I know who are to various extents into self-sufficiency, alternative lifestyles, communal living, eco-activism and the like, I’m astounded to have not come across WWOOF, “wwoofers” and “wwoofing” before: Wikipedia World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (also known as Willing Workers on Organic Farms) (WWOOF) is an organisation which facilitates the

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so i’m lying on the bed in the front room, sprawled out with the crutches and leg-brace on the floor beside me, watching some trashy “lives of the hollywood celebs” documentary on some random satellite channel. all of a sudden there’s a fluttering sensation on the left side of my waist, then a then a

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Well I’m being repeatedly asked “how’s it going”, so it’s probably time for a bit of an update on my post-accident progress. The ribs: these continue to be the most annoying of the injuries, but are steadily improving: Last thursday was the first time I managed to bend over, pick something – a catfood bowl

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Mac fans, check this out. “A screenshot of Windows Gadgets in Windows Vista build 5536.” Look familiar? (Another quality BartLink)

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