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David Beckham says he will retire from soccer at end of the season
LONDON (AP) — David Beckham is retiring from soccer, ending a career in which he transcended the sport with forays into fashion and a marriage to a pop star that made him a global celebrity. The 38-year-old midfielder, who recently won a league...
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Scientists find new gene markers for cancer risk
NEW YORK (AP) — A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal further a person's risk for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer,...Tags: University of Cambridge, European Union, Mammogram, Medical Research, Biology
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TV show claims UK TV host Savile abused children
LONDON (AP) — For decades, Jimmy Savile was a fixture on British television — an eccentric, aggressively jocular host of children's shows and a tireless charity fundraiser. When he died last year at 84 — by then knighted as Sir Jimmy...Tags: Social Issues, The Rolling Stones (music group), The Pennsylvania State University, United Kingdom, Sex Pistols (music group)
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British police deploy in force after lion sighting
LONDON (AP) — Outside the idyllic English village of St. Osyth, police are hunting a lion. A small army of officers and tranquilizer-toting zoo experts, along with a pair of heat-seeking helicopters, are spending their Monday combing the woods,...Tags: Television Industry, United Kingdom, Satellite and Cable Service, Cornwall
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List: 'Baby bump' dumped, 'amazing' phrases banned
DETROIT (AP) — Before passing comment on someone's "baby bump," take a pregnant pause. Likewise, give up promoting "shared sacrifice." And if you're tempted to proclaim your desire to "win the future," you've lost it here in the present. Michigan's...Tags: Facebook, New Year's Day, Television Industry, Landforms, Politics
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Cowell says he tried to keep Cole on 'X Factor'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Simon Cowell says he made a good faith effort to keep Cheryl Cole on either the U.S. or U.K. versions of "The X Factor." Cole is being replaced as a judge on Fox TV's upcoming version of the singing contest by another British pop...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, United Kingdom, Simon Cowell, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
NEW YORK (AP) — Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.
"I don't think there were any newspaper articles about it or anything...Tags: Science, University of Cambridge, Global Change, The Pope, Politics
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Author Prosek teaches business model staffed with 'Army of Entrepreneurs'
Tribune CorrespondentShe graduated from college with an English literature degree in a recessionary time, moved back home with her parents in rural Connecticut when she found hiring freezes in the city, and, just to have work, took a job she didn’t want. Now Jennifer...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, New York City, Finance, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Mutual Funds
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Local RV company finds English niche market
GOSHEN – A startup company in Elkhart County is setting the foundation to build a new type of travel trailer.
This new travel trailer will not be sold locally, but instead it will be sold in England.
Within the next two weeks, Eterniti RV will...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, United Kingdom
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U.K. cave yields ice-age skull cups
LONDON (AP) — British scientists say they have uncovered three human skulls that ice-age Britons used as drinking cups. Scientists from London's Natural History Museum say the 14,700-year-old skeletal remains found in a cave in southwest England...Tags: Landforms, United Kingdom, Caves and Caverns, Science and Technology, London (England)
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British filmmaker documents Kokomo's turnaround
KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A British filmmaker who's making a documentary of Kokomo says he hopes the lessons about how the city is improving its economy resonate with viewers around the world. Danny Lomax tells the Kokomo Tribune his hometown of Lower...Tags: Indiana, Elections, Politics, Movies, Barack Obama
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UK cat with thunderous purr makes rrrecord attempt
LONDON (AP) — A British community college says it has a recorded a house cat whose lawnmower-like purr hit 73 decibels — 16 times louder than the average feline. Northampton College in central England said Wednesday that it had dispatched...Tags: Boeing Co., Education, Colleges and Universities, London (England)
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