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			<title><![CDATA[ Actoress Britney Murphy died ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ According to reports the 8 Mile star passed away on Sunday after going into cardiac arrest.
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It is thought the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to &quot;a medical request&quot; at Murphy&#39;s home in West Hollywood, before taking her to
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center near Beverly Hills, where she was pronounced dead.
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The actress starred in such films as Just Married, Uptown Girls and Clueless, but saw her fortunes fade in recent years.
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She was married to... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:30:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bling your thing ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>Imagine this a Wii console under the Christmas tree, but this isn&#39;t any old run-of-the-mill Wii, this is a 22 carat gold Wii with 78 0.25 carat
diamonds.  The cost?  A snip at £299,995 and that doesn&#39;t include all the gadgets you need.</p>

<p>The creator of this monstrosity is Stuart Hughes - aka &#39;Goldstriker&#39;.  He takes everyday objects and covers them with as much high-carat gold,
platinum and other bling as space allows.</p>

<p>If gaming isn&#39;t your thing, there are... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:26:03 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Chief justice of Pakistan. ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Chief justice of Pakistan is going to announce a very important decision,we are all waiting for it if it happens then it will be a glorious day for Pakistan.I
will inform you when it happens,we all are very hopeful about it and waiting <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/smile.gif" alt="image">.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:14:13 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Police pay your bills ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I am very sad because I know for sure my police won&#39;t pay anything for me <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/frown.gif" alt="image"><img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/frown.gif" alt="image"><img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/frown.gif" alt="image"> It is unfair, isn&#39;t it? <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/eyes.gif" alt="image"><img... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:26:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bomb blast ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Do you watch T.V if yes,do you listen news.In Pakistan every day two or three bombs are blasting and it is doing a huge loss of lives of innocent people every
day,i don,t know what will be the end of this situation,what these bombers want from us.When i watch news i can not see my brothers,sisters and elders dieing
with such a great pain.No one knows will he return home in the evening after stepping out of the home,life has become very worthless.
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I am sorry i wrote all my frustration... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:36:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Copyright ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I must confess I agree with this guy (I am a notorious photo taker as you know <img src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif"> The books I need are often missing in our university library <img src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif">  )
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/26/science-shackles-intellectual-property">http://www.guardian.co.uk...es-intellectual-property</a>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:49:25 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Christmas Nativity Play ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I was revamping the Christmas page on the website, when I spotted a news article on the BBC. 
<br>
<br>
Seemingly, some pushy parents are getting a bit carried away when dressing their little darlings for the school nativity play.   Nowadays, the Virgin Marys are
appearing in luxury pashmina shawls and Wise Men in bejewelled silk turbans. According to department store Debenhams, some parents are spending as much as £150
on their child&#39;s costume!  

<p>In what must be my favourite quote of... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ The National Anthem that must not be sung ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p class="first"><img title="pimp" src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/pimp.gif" alt="image">British singer Pete Doherty has had to
apologise after being asked to leave a stage at a concert in Munich in Germany for performing the first verse of the German national anthem.</p>

<p class="first">The first verse of Germany&#39;s national anthem - which translates as &quot;Germany, Germany above everything&quot; - has been ignored since
the fall of the Third Reich, instead... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ European Unemployment Rates ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Latvia
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Unemployment: 19.7% <img src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eek.gif">
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<br>
Spain
<br>
Unemployment: 19.3%
<br>
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Lithuania
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Unemployment: 13.8%
<br>
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Estonia
<br>
Unemployment: 13.3%
<br>
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Ireland
<br>
Unemployment: 13%
<br>
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Slovakia
<br>
Unemployment: 12%
<br>
<br>
Russia
<br>
Unemployment: 10.2%
<br>
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France
<br>
Unemployment: 10%
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Hungary
<br>
Unemployment: 9.7%
<br>
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Portugal
<br>
Unemployment: 9.2%
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Greece
<br>... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:42:59 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Confused by News Headlines? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Check out the new section in the English magazine - <a title="English News Headlines Explained" target="_blank" href="http://www.english-magazine.org/index.php/english-in-use-headlines.html?layout=default">English in the News</a>.  We &quot;try&quot; to explain those
confusing headlines you see in British newspapers.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:06:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ My favourite verb ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ To bungle - spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
<br>
<br>
A &#39;bungling&#39; robber was caught within minutes of stealing £25,000 from a bank when he fled to his own house across the road.
<br>

<p>Witnesses watched as attacked a security guard and then sprinted into his home - across the road from the bank he had just robbed.
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			<title><![CDATA[ murdered just for a car ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>A 49-year-old nurse was going to go home yesterday and stand next to her car in the parking garage when suddenly a man wanted the keys but she didn`t give
him them - the poor woman was murdered. It happened in Austria the man is in trial.</p> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:10:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Diplomatic scandal ]]></title>
			<link>http://learnenglishonline.yuku.com/topic/8937/t/Diplomatic-scandal.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Sometimes, SMS messages are too short, aren&#39;t they : <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8358544.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8358544.stm</a> <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image"><img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image"><img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image">
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:47:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bungled robbery;) ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi,
<br>
<br>
I wanted to check what the verb: <span style="font-style: italic;">bungle</span> means. The results are amazing:
<br>
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1095907/Robber-arrested-after-professing-love-for-victim">http://www.sbs.com.au/new...ofessing-love-for-victim</a>
<br> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:32:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U2 Rebuild the Berlin Wall ]]></title>
			<link>http://learnenglishonline.yuku.com/topic/8893/t/U2-Rebuild-the-Berlin-Wall.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ 20 years after the Berlin wall fell, U2 have rebuilt it.  A 2 metre barrier was built round the Brandenburg gate to keep out anyone without tickets to the
show.  <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image">
<br>
<br>
And they had the cheek to sing &quot;... scale these city walls&quot;.  WTG Bono!
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:38:26 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Tender agent Tomek ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Our most famous agent in the British press:
<br>
<br>
&quot;His eyes were heavy with passion as he tried to seduce me,&quot; she said. As they became lovers he seemed so trustworthy that she took him to meet her
parents - not something that happened very often to 007.
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6886260.ece">http://www.timesonline.co...urope/article6886260.ece</a>
<br> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Lenin's death ;) ]]></title>
			<link>http://learnenglishonline.yuku.com/topic/8823/t/Lenin-s-death-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ To be honest, I am not very sympathetic <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image"><img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image"><img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image">
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<a target="_blank"... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:13:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fat children ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Should children who are obese be taken away from their parents?
<br>

<p class="Body">A family in Dundee has had a baby removed from its mother the day after it was born.  The family had approached the local authority for help to
tackle their obesity issues after being warned that they risked losing their children.  At the time they had a toddler who weighed four stones and a
12-year-old boy who weighed 16st.</p> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:52:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ig nobel awards 2009 ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <a target="_blank" href="http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2009">http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2009</a>
<br>
<br>
LITERATURE PRIZE: Ireland&#39;s police service (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.garda.ie/">An Garda Siochana</a>), for writing and presenting more than fifty traffic
tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country - <a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;um=1&amp;sa=1&amp;q=">Prawo
Jazdy</a> - whose name in Polish means... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:51:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Polanski's detention ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ It is difficult to judge:
<br>
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8277886.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8277886.stm</a>
<br> ]]></description>

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