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• Kidnapped girl reveals new details of her life as a 'domestic slave'
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:25:58 EDT)

Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian woman who was held prisoner for eight years in a basement, has revealed new details of her ordeal in an autobiography.


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• UK police ask for help in case of slain intelligence agent
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:20:43 EDT)

Metropolitan police in London, England, appealed Monday for further information about last month's death of a man who worked for a British intelligence agency and whose naked body was found in a padlocked duffel bag in his bathroom.


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• Conventions: Another day at the office for celebs
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:36:43 EDT)

Much of the world got to know her as Col. Wilma Deering on the "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" television series. Though she later played Kate on "Silver Spoons," there was something about that Spandex that was hard to forget.


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• Lawyer: Woman facing stoning in Iran has been whipped
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:00:30 EDT)

Contradictory reports swirled around the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, with one Iranian lawyer saying Monday that she had been whipped 99 times for another alleged offense but another casting doubt on it.


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• Former ELO cellist killed in freak car accident
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:07:04 EDT)

A former cellist with the rock group Electric Light Orchestra was killed Monday in a car crash involving a large bale of hay in southwestern England, local police said.


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• John Lennon's killer is up for parole
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:13:17 EDT)

Mark David Chapman, convicted killer of music icon John Lennon, is up for parole for the sixth time and may be questioned this week.


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• Planned Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:53:57 EDT)

The U.S. commander in Afghanistan has criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning the demonstration "could cause significant problems" for American troops overseas.


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• Dutch paper: Van der Sloot admits extortion
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:20:49 EDT)

Joran van der Sloot admitted in an interview with a Dutch newspaper that he extorted money from the family of Natalee Holloway, but his attorney in a Peruvian murder case suggested Monday that his client's comments may have been mistranslated.


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• Black farmers association to call on U.S. Senate to fund settlement
(Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:36:14 EDT)

The National Black Farmers Association will call for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to fund a historic discrimination case settlement involving minority farmers.


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• Boston police say 'vicious thugs' killed pizza delivery man
(Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:38:50 EDT)

Boston police have arrested three suspects who they say stabbed a Domino's pizza delivery man and drove off in his car.


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