FBI Most Wanted

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FBI Most Wanted
 FBI Most Wanted, Just shy of the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s assassination the FBI updated its Ten Most Wanted list. The list currently stands at nine with the recent capture of James Whitey Bulger. The FBI is offering a hefty reward for all but one of these fugitives. FBI Most Wanted +  up to $100,000 reward for information

World's largest gold coin minted

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World's largest gold coin minted
World's largest gold coin minted, Pining for something ridiculously expensive? Perhaps a blinged up iPad 2 or a posh camper? There's a single coin that can afford all those…and more. The world's largest gold coin was recently unveiled by the The Perth Mint in Australia to mark the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Weighing an astounding one ton (or 2204 lbs.), it is enormous not only in size, but also in value; the coin's value tops $57.34 million based on current gold prices.

Kelly Osbourne Christina Aguilera
Kelly Osbourne Christina Aguilera, Kelly Osbourne sure holds a grudge. On E!'s Fashion Police Friday, the 26-year-old slammed Christina Aguilera for her weight. "She called me fat for years," Osbourne said. "I was never that fat."
Osbourne was criticizing Aguilera's performance look at last weekend's Michael Jackson Tribute Concert. The 30-year-old paired a pantsless ensemble with fishnet tights, heavy makeup and supersized hair.

But Ozzy's daughter wasn't the only cohost to attack Aguilera's figure. "Lady Marmalade got into the peanut butter again," Joan Rivers sniped.

The Dark Knight Rises to film at Occupy Wall Street protests 
The Dark Knight Rises to film at Occupy Wall Street protests - According to production sources, The Dark Knight Rises will include footage from the Occupy Wall Street protests.

We're not entirely sure what the anti-capitalist movement has to do with a 250 million dollar movie featuring a billionaire who spends his spare time beating up poor people (and supervillains), but we're sure it'll be very exciting.

Christopher Nolan's crew arrives in New York on Oct. 29 to film. They've filed for permits under code name Magnus Rex in the area the protests are taking place.

Crashes drop with BlackBerrys out
Crashes drop with BlackBerrys out, According to data released last week by NYPD, distracted drivers were the leading cause of city traffic crashes in August. Of 16,784 incidents, 1,877 were attributed to “driver inattention/distraction,” while an additional 10 were linked specifically to phones or other electronic devices.


While NYPD reports make it impossible to decipher exactly how many city drivers are texting or talking before a crash — we’ll go out on a limb and assume it was more than 10 — the recent BlackBerry service outage in Europe, Africa and the Middle East served to illustrate the extent of the problem in two cities. The National reports:

Cops say parents locked boy in coffin
Cops say parents locked boy in coffin, Police were searching on Tuesday for a couple accused of punishing their 7-year-old son by forcing him to wear a diaper and locking him in a coffin in the basement of their Pennsylvania home.
Neighbors called police after they heard the boy crying from inside the house in Scranton on September 26, said police Detective Captain Al Leoncini.

Police found the boy sitting in a doorway of the basement, upset and wearing a diaper, he said. The boy told police he was crying because he was hungry.

Jolie takes new UN role

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Jolie takes new UN role
Jolie takes new UN role, She has been a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees for over ten years and during that time she has brought up her brood and made some killer hit films.

But it appears that Angelina Jolie,36, just can't say no to taking on new projects and is set to take on a new role in the refugee crises.
It appears that the mother-of-six will now take become a Special Representative and will work with governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran on the refugee issue. Jolie takes new UN role,

Billy Beane Vice President Oakland Athletics
Billy Beane Vice President Oakland Athletics, The upcoming release of the film Moneyball on Friday, based on the best-selling book by Michael Lewis with the same title, should hopefully be a somewhat flattering achievement for not only general manager Billy Beane, but the entire Oakland A’s organization as well.Imagine: a feature-length movie that illustrates your team’s revolutionary new business model that produces successful results on the baseball field.

Sounds more like a finance documentary for an Econ 101 class.

Instead, Moneyball has been turned into a made-for-big-screen story, Hollywoodized with the glamorous background and glitzy megastars in Brad Pitt as Beane and Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman. Who would’ve thunk that such an achievement would occur for a baseball general manager?

Nasas Dead Satellite

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Nasas Dead Satellite
Nasas Dead Satellite, The biggest piece of US space junk to fall in 30 years is taking aim at a vast span of territory that includes Canada, Australia and Africa as well as plenty of open ocean, NASA said.The US space agency stressed there was a "very remote" risk to the public from the 26 fragments of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) expected to survive the fiery re-entry into the atmosphere.

The latest data showed the debris could re-enter Earth's atmosphere between 11:00 pm Friday (0300 GMT Saturday) and 3:00 am Saturday (0700 GMT), according to NASA.

Nasa Satellite Falling

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Nasa Satellite Falling
Nasa Satellite Falling, NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite, with the U.S. space agency now predicting the 6 1/2-ton climate probe will plummet to Earth around Sept. 23, a day earlier than previously reported.

The defunct bus-size spacecraft is NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS), which launched in 1991 and was shut down in 2005 after completing its mission. The satellite was expected to fall to Earth sometime this year, with experts initially pegging a weeks-long window between late September and early October, then narrowing it to the last week of this month.

Baby born on Philippine Airlines flight has no nationality 
Baby born on Philippine Airlines flight has no nationality, Officials were trying Tuesday to ascertain the nationality of a baby born mid-flight, apparently while over international waters, in a passenger jet heading from the Philippines to the U.S.Pregnant Philippines woman Aida Alamillo, 41, was on Philippine Airlines Flight 104 from Manila on Monday when she began to feel nauseous and realized she was in labor, earlier than expected. A short time later, about four hours out of San Francisco and at 30,000 feet, she gave birth to a healthy, six-pound boy.

Cheesemakers in bid for world record slice of Stilton
 Cheesemakers in bid for world record slice of Stilton, Long Clawson Dairy 110kg world record cheese slice bid. Cheesemakers in Leicestershire have attempted to break the world record for the heaviest cheese slice.

Long Clawson Dairy staff have created a wedge of blue Stilton which weighed in 110.5kg (244lbs) for the firm's centenary celebrations.

Daredevil pulls car 10 metres using just his ears
 Daredevil pulls car 10 metres using just his ears, A Chinese daredevil wowed crowds as he effortlessly pulled a hefty car for more than ten meters… using just his ears. Folk artist, Li Xiwen, pulled the black Ford car using string tied to his ears during China’s second hand car event in Zaozhuang, northern China.

As impressive as it sounds, Li Xiwen is not the first to attempt the unusual feat. Another Chinese man pulled a car for more than a whopping 200 meters using just his ears – this time while riding a motorbike.

Man dies after dumpling-eating win

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Man dies after dumpling-eating win. Man wins dumpling eating contest, then dies. A 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a dumpling eating contest and then promptly died, local media reported on Wednesday.

Ivan Mendel ate 10 dumplings in half a minute to win first place and a one-liter jar of sour cream in the contest held in the town of Tokmak in the southeastern Zaporizhya region on September 18, Fakty I Kommentarii newspaper said. Shortly afterwards, Mendel became unwell and died, according to local news websites.

Dumplings, called "vareniki" in the former Soviet republic, are a staple of Ukrainian cuisine and are often stuffed with a range of fillings from mushrooms to cherries.

Sarah Polley expecting

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Sarah Polley expecting
Sarah Polley expecting. Canadian actress and director Sarah Polley is expecting her first child -- and got married two weeks ago -- she told Toronto.com."I'm really excited, super excited," the John Adams and Dawn of the Dead star, 32, said, adding that she's 3 1/2 months along.

Woman dies while midwives watch TV?

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Woman dies while midwives watch TV?
Woman dies while midwives watch TV? Two midwives have been suspended after the deaths of a mother and her newborn baby at a maternity unit in east London.Tebussum Ali died in January, five days after going into labour at Queen's Hospital in Romford.

BP to test Gulf Coast beach tar balls
BP to test Gulf Coast beach tar balls. Heavy surf churned up by Tropical Storm Lee sent tar balls rolling onto Alabama's prime tourist beaches, and officials said Tuesday that they plan to test the black and brown globs to find out if they're related to last year's oil spill.

Brandon Franklin, the coastal plans manager for the city of Gulf Shores, said officials are collecting samples that will be sent to Auburn University for testing.

Jonas to replace Radcliffe on Broadway
Jonas to replace Radcliffe on Broadway. Great news, maybe! Nick Jonas is taking over the lead role in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" from Darren Criss, who will take it over from Daniel Radcliffe.

Jonas will step into the role of J. Pierrepont Finch next year in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." He begins Jan. 24 and will play the role until July 1.

Liz Taylor's jewelry up for auction
Liz Taylor's jewelry up for auction. Actress Elizabeth Taylor's world-renowned collection of jewellery will be auctioned off in December at a two-day sale that is expected to realize more than $30 million, Christie's said on Wednesday.The Dec. 13-14 sale will follow a global three-month tour that will also include Taylor's couture, fine art and memorabilia, and will be the first of a series of auctions from the estate of the legendary film star who died in March.

Giant crocodile captured alive

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Giant crocodile captured alive
A giant crocodile was captured alive in a village in the Philippines  The creature was hunted for three weeks before it was captured and is believed to have attacked a fisherman who went missing weeks ago. The giant crocodile was moved to an ecotourism park, where it is expected to be the biggest star

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