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Spencer Pratt Paparazzi Agency

June 18, 2010
By rajaali
Spencer Pratt Paparazzi Agency

Here’s a new article from Pop Crunch Photo: Now that his career as a reality show villain is kaput, The Hills’ Spencer Pratt has launched his own paparazzi business. Heaven help us! The cash-strapped star – who has masqueraded as a rapper, a cyber cop, and Native-American – has commissoned his Twitter followers...
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Train hits landslide, derails in China, killing 19 (AP)

May 23, 2010
By Breaking News
Train hits landslide, derails in China, killing 19      (AP)

AP - A passenger train hit by landslides derailed Sunday in eastern China, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 70 others, state media reported. The latest death toll jumped from initial reports of eight killed, as rescuers dug out more bodies from mangled and overturned train carriages, the official Xinhua...
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Former senator, ex-EPA chief head oil spill panel (AP)

May 23, 2010
By rajaali
Former senator, ex-EPA chief head oil spill panel      (AP)

AP - The Environmental Protection Agency chief on the job during the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989 and a former Florida senator will lead the presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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Gulf Oil Spill Presidential Commission Named By Obama

May 22, 2010
By rajaali

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency chief on the job during the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989 and a former Florida senator will lead the presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico disaster. President Barack Obama on Saturday announced the appointments of William K. Continued here: Gulf Oil Spill Presidential...
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Orakzai operation kills 10 extremists

May 16, 2010
By rajaali

HANGU: At least ten extremists were killed and six others injured in shelling by the security forces’ fighter jets in Upper Orakzai Agency, Geo News reported Sunday. The security forces’ fighter jets pounded two havens of extremists in Upper Orakzai Agency areas, killing ten extremists present there and injuring six others.
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Obama Seeks to Split Agency That Monitors Oil Drilling

May 11, 2010
By rajaali
Obama Seeks to Split Agency That Monitors Oil Drilling

The Obama administration is proposing splitting the agency that oversees offshore drilling in response to the Gulf Coast oil spill.
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Discussing Oversight Failures, Federal Financial Regulators Do Little To Inspire Confidence

May 6, 2010
By rajaali
Discussing Oversight Failures, Federal Financial Regulators Do Little To Inspire Confidence

Former top officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission did little Wednesday to affect the overall perception that the agency failed in its mission to supervise large investment banks. For starters, Christopher Cox, the agency’s much-maligned former chairman during the George W. Bush administration, referred to the SEC’s Consolidated Supervised Entities program, with...
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Feds Subpoena New York Times Reporter Over CIA Book

April 29, 2010
By rajaali
Feds Subpoena New York Times Reporter Over CIA Book

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
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Knee Problems Niggling Hrithik

February 19, 2010
By Breaking News
Knee Problems Niggling Hrithik

Latest Updates About Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan has just returned from a trip to Singapore, where the actor had gone to see a knee specialist. News has it that for the past two years, the actor is struggling from a constant knee problem. It is believed that Hrithik went for a knee diagnosis...
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Katrina’s Learning Punjabi!

February 19, 2010
By rajaali
Katrina’s Learning Punjabi!

MUMBAI : Katrina Kaif’s doing her best to be a desi girl. The actress who has been polishing her Hindi for a while now, recently tried to woo her fans in Bihar by addressing them in Bhojpuri. The actress did face some flak for her Brit accent.
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