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Rafael Nadal Withdraws From U.S. Open With Wrist Injury
Full Article Huffington Post
18 Aug 2014

Rafael Nadal pulled out of the U.S. Open on Monday because of an injured right wrist, making him the fourth reigning men's champion in the last 45 years to sit out the tournament. Nadal and the tournament announced his decision simultaneously, exactly one week before the year's last Grand Slam tournament begins. The 28-year-old Spaniard was hurt...

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Rafael Nadal, of Spain, cradles the championship trophy after defeating Novak Djokovic
photo: AP / Darron Cummings

updated 31 Jul 2014; published 31 Jul 2014
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Rafael Nadal faces three weeks on sidelines with wrist injury | BREAKING NEWS - 01 AUG 2014
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Rafael Nadal Withdraws From Toronto Masters & Cincinnati Masters -- Right Wrist Injury -- Report
updated 15 Jan 2014; published 15 Jan 2014
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Rafael Nadal Crushing Forehands in Slow Motion Australian Open 2014
updated 15 May 2014; published 15 May 2014
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Rome 2014 Thursday Hot Shot Nadal
updated 10 Jun 2014; published 10 Jun 2014
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Rafael Nadal 2014 French Open Fakeout Forehand (Top Speed Tennis)
updated 19 Sep 2013; published 19 Sep 2013
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Rafael Nadal Serve Slow Motion - BNP Paribas Open 2013
Guinea bears brunt of West Africa Ebola havoc
Full Article Al Jazeera
18 Aug 2014

After seven years of hard work and conscientious saving, Issouf Balde was about to realise his life-long dream of fulfilling one of the five pillars of Islam by travelling to the holy land of Mecca for the Islamic pilgrimage, but the Ebola virus dashed his hopes. "My travel agent returned my money for the trip, saying that the embassy of Saudi...

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Guinea Police secure the area around a man who collapsed in a puddle of water on the street, and people would not approach him as they fear he may be suffering from the Ebola virus in the city of Conakry, Guinea, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.
photo: AP / Youssouf Bah

updated 04 Jun 2014; published 04 Jun 2014
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BREAKING NEWS: Ebola death toll hits 208 in Guinea
updated 31 Jul 2014; published 31 Jul 2014
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Kenya Safe From Ebola, Ministry Of Health Says
updated 28 Jul 2014; published 28 Jul 2014
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Medical Staff In Liberia Hit With Ebola Virus.
updated 17 Aug 2014; published 17 Aug 2014
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Liberia expands Ebola treatment centers | BREAKING NEWS
updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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UK's Two-bed Ebola Unit MP Calls For Fever Scans At UK Airports...
updated 25 Jun 2013; published 07 May 2010
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Reaching the remote - humanitarian healthcare in Badakshan, Afghanistan
Assange talks of leaving embassy, sowing confusion
Full Article Tampa Bay Online
18 Aug 2014

LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sowed confusion Monday with an announcement that appeared to indicate he was leaving his embassy bolt hole, but his spokesman later clarified that that would not happen unless the impasse over his extradition were resolved. Assange made the cryptic comments during a press conference at the Ecuadorean...

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ARCHIV: Der Gruender der Internet-Plattform WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, lehnt waehrend seines Hausarrests an der geoeffneten Haustuer in Bungay, England (Foto vom 15.06.11). Showdown im Konflikt um Wikileaks-Gruender Julien Assange zwischen Ecuador und Grossbritannien: Der ecuadorianische Aussenminister Ricardo Patino kuendigte an, sein Land werde am Donnerstag (16.08.12) ueber den Asylantrag Assanges entscheiden, der sich seit dem 19. Juni in der Botschaft des suedamerikanischen Landes aufhaelt. Die britische Regierung stellte klar, dass sie an der Auslieferung Assanges an Schweden festhaelt, wo er zu Vergewaltigungsvorwuerfen befragt werden soll. (zu dapd-Text) Foto: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP/dapd
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updated 12 Jan 2014; published 12 Jan 2014
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Douglas Murray - The Strange World of Julian Assange
updated 09 Jul 2013; published 09 Jul 2013
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Exclusive: Ecuador's Foreign Minister on Snowden, Assange & Latin American Resistance to U.S. Spying
updated 05 Nov 2013; published 05 Nov 2013
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Julian Assange would lead WikiLeaks ticket in WA Senate byelection 2
updated 17 Sep 2012; published 17 Sep 2012
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Julian Assange Should Be Extradited To Sweden
updated 30 Nov 2013; published 30 Nov 2013
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Enjoy my videos every day in December! almost
updated 12 Jun 2011; published 12 Jun 2011
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DEVELOPMENT Obeidi Is A Fugitive? Fled During Defamation Case Against Her; Describes Escape
Ferguson: Missouri national guard to be deployed
Full Article The Guardian
18 Aug 2014

Announcement follows most intense violence since shooting of Michael Brown, with police firing teargas at protesters hours before curfew The escalation in the crisis in Ferguson came after the eighth night of unrest since an unarmed 18-year-old was shot dead by a police officer in disputed circumstances on 9 August. Photograph: J.B. Forbes/AP The...

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People protest Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo.
photo: AP / Charlie Riedel

updated 11 Aug 2014; published 11 Aug 2014
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Looting in Ferguson Riots after Mike Brown killed | St. Louis Missouri [FOOTAGE]!
updated 14 Aug 2014; published 14 Aug 2014
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TEAR GAS - Looting Riots in Ferguson Missouri WAR Protest | Mike Brown St. Louis!
updated 11 Aug 2014; published 11 Aug 2014
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Looting in Ferguson Riots after Mike Brown killed | St. Louis Missouri [NEW VIDEO]!!
updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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Looting in Ferguson Riots after Mike Brown killed | St. Louis Missouri [NEW FOOTAGE]
updated 13 Aug 2014; published 13 Aug 2014
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Men Get Shot in the Face - Looting Riots in Ferguson Missouri | Mike Brown killed St. Louis!!!
updated 18 Aug 2014; published 18 Aug 2014
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National Guard To Be Deployed In Ferguson
Kurdish forces ‘take control’ of Iraq’s Mosul dam
Full Article The Irish Times
18 Aug 2014

Kurdish forces have taken control of most of Iraq’s largest dam after battling Islamic State fighters in nearby villages, reversing some of gains made by the insurgents in the north with US military support. The forces, also known as the peshmerga, will have full control of the Mosul Dam in “just a matter of time,” said Fuad Hussein,...

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A Kurdish peshmerga fighter prepares his weapon at his combat position near the Mosul Dam at the town of Chamibarakat outside Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Aug 17, 2014.
photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed

updated 17 Aug 2014; published 17 Aug 2014
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Kurdish fighters battle IS militants for control of Iraq's largest dam
updated 18 Aug 2014; published 18 Aug 2014
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Kurdish forces make gains near Mosul dam
updated 17 Aug 2014; published 17 Aug 2014
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Iraq: Kurdish Forces Fight To Retake Mosul Dam
updated 18 Aug 2014; published 18 Aug 2014
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Iraq: US air strikes back Kurd push to retake Mosul dam
updated 17 Aug 2014; published 17 Aug 2014
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Kurd forces 'advance' on Mosul dam
updated 18 Aug 2014; published 18 Aug 2014
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Kurdish forces fight for Mosul Dam isis

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How to get children to eat vegetables
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The Independent
Vegetables are better for children than crisps, fizz, sweets and burgers. Vitamins, fibre and antioxidants are more likely to ensure a healthy, lively slim child than sugar and...
Partisans Were Unsung Heroes of World War II
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WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling If World War II partisans and their stories were as widely read as Anne Frank's Diary, or watched as often as movies like Schindler's...
Theft Does Not Equal Death
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Huffington Post
The Missouri state senator who was tear-gassed while demonstrating in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police killing of unarmed teen Michael Brown, protested the injection of Brown's...

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Julian Assange Leaving Ecuadorian Embassy In London “Soon”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addresses a meeting via videolink from Ecuador's London embassy during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012.
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The Inquisitr
Today, after two years of self-imposed imprisonment, he met with the press to announce that he will be leaving the embassy soon, but – “…but perhaps not for the reasons that Murdoch press and Sky news are saying at the...
photo: AP / Jason DeCrow
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Federal autopsy ordered in Missouri teen’s death
Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, to announce the results of the Distressed Homeowner Initiative, the first law enforcement effort focused on crimes against struggling homeowners.
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The State
FERGUSON, Mo. — Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday ordered a federal medical examiner to perform another autopsy on a black Missouri teenager whose fatal shooting by a white police officer has spurred a week of rancorous and...
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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National Guard called in after second night of chaos in Ferguson, Mo.
Riot police standing around after shooting of michael brown
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Canoe
FERGUSON, Mo. - Missouri's governor said on Monday he would send the National Guard into the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson to restore calm after authorities forcibly dispersed a crowd protesting last week's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by...
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It's Confirmed! Black Holes Do Come in Medium Sizes
Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The ratio between the black hole Schwarzschild radius and the observer distance to it is 1:9.
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Space
An image of the galaxy Messier 82 compiling data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope. The intermediate-mass black hole M82 X-1 is the brightest object in the inset, at about 2 o'clock near the...
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South Africa’s Great Rhino Airlift
n this photo taken Friday, Nov. 22, 2012, Miles Lappeman, owner of Finfoot Lake Reserve near Tantanana, South Africa, and his son Marc, right, walk past the carcass of a rhino. South Africa says at least 588 rhinos have been killed by poachers this year alone, 8 rhinos at the Finfoot Lake Reserve, the worst recorded year in decades. The number has soared as buyers in Asia pay the U.S. street value of cocaine for rhino horn, a material they believe, wrongly, medical experts say, cures diseases.
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The Daily Beast
Poachers have hunted South Africa’s rhinos nearly to extinction—but conservationists have a bold new plan to evacuate the animals to safer ground. South Africa is the most dangerous place in the world to be a rhinoceros. Targeted for their horns,...
photo: AP / Denis Farrell
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Chadian troops rescue 85 Nigerian hostages from Boko Haram
Chadian soldiers patrol the streets of Gao, northern Mali, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013.
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CNN
updated 8:44 PM EDT, Sat August 16, 2014 A video of Abubakar Shekau, who claims to be the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, is shown on September 25, 2013. Boko Haram is an Islamist militant group waging a campaign of...
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Second Youth Games open in wet Nanjing
Nanjing Olympic Sports Center
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Reuters
NANJING China (Reuters) - The second Youth Olympics opened in a wet Nanjing on Saturday with International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach encouraging the teenage athletes to have fun and embrace social media. "You are here...
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