Australia was first settled by between 1,000 and 3,000 humans around 50,000 years ago, but the population crashed during the Ice Age before recovering to a peak of some 1.2 million people around five centuries ago, a study said on Wednesday. Estimating the early population of Australia is a source...
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Australia originally settled by 1,000-3,000 people 50,000 years ago: study
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Off-duty Navy sailor blocks Dubai rape attempt with leg stranglehold
A female off-duty U.S. Navy sailor who was attacked by a bus driver in Dubai wrestled her would-be rapist into submission with a leg strangle hold, according to court testimony on Tuesday reported by The National. The woman, whose identity was not disclosed, was on 24-hour shore leave on Jan. 19...
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Arizona campus preacher to anti-rape protesters: ‘You deserve rape’
A University of Arizona student known for his fiery, on-campus Christian sermons disrupted a campus sexual assault awareness event Tuesday by holding up a sign that read “You deserve rape” and preaching that “if you dress like a whore, act like a whore, you’re probably going to...
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Rubio ‘open’ to cutting off all Muslim student visas
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Wednesday said that he was “open” to considering the idea of halting all student visas from Muslim countries as a reaction to this month’s Boston Marathon bombings. Earlier this week, Fox News host Bob Beckel first suggested that there should be a...
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Swedish police find drugs on Bieber’s tour bus
Swedish police said Thursday they had found a “small amount” of drugs on Canadian pop star Justin Bieber’s tour bus while he was performing in Stockholm. “We conducted a search of Justin Bieber’s bus and found a small amount of drugs,” Stockholm police spokesman...
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Google Trends can predict stock movements
Google Trends, a tool that looks at patterns of searches on the Internet, is a potential money-spinner for investors as it provides hints of impending stock movements, a study said on Thursday. Researchers led by Tobias Preis at Warwick Business School in central England analysed data from Google...
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Unemployment claims fall to lowest level since mid-March
New claims for US unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since mid-March, the government reported Thursday, in a fresh sign of a slowly improving job market. Initial jobless claims totaled 339,000 in the week ending April 20, down from the prior week’s revised reading of...
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Amy Winehouse documentary to feature unaired footage
A documentary on the life of tragic British singer Amy Winehouse will feature unseen footage of the late star, the company handling its sale at the Cannes film festival said on Thursday. Focus Features International, a division of US entertainment giant NBCUniversal, said it would be taking the as...
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Rep. blasts House hearing on ‘bizarre conspiracy theories’ about DHS ammunition hoarding
Rep. John Tierney (D-MA), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s National Security Subcommittee, slammed Republicans on Thursday for conducting a hearing that he said was driven by Internet conspiracy theories suggesting that the Department of Homeland...
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Barbara Bush says there have been enough Bushes in the White House
Barbara Bush counsels against former Florida governor attempting to follow her husband and son to the White House A recent poll of Republicans found the former Florida governor Jeb Bush to be solidly in the middle of the 2016 presidential pack. He beats Chris Christie on favorability and ties with...
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Bush weeps while talking about Hurricane Katrina and dead soldiers
Former President George W. Bush openly wept while talking about some of the biggest disasters of his tenure at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Thursday. At the conclusion of his speech, Bush mentioned “the people of New Orleans who made homemade boats...
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Authorities say banks are too vulnerable to hacking
US authorities charged with overseeing the financial sector are worried about its vulnerability to cyberattacks, they said in a report published Thursday. “Security threats in cyberspace are not bound by national borders and can range widely from low to high security risks,” wrote the...
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Colorado court: Businesses can fire employees for off-hours pot use
A Colorado Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that businesses can still fire employees who test positive for marijuana use, even if they never show up to work under the influence. According to NBC News, a divided panel of judges ruled that even though marijuana use is legal in the state, the fact...
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LSD-tripping Florida man claims to be God and asks police to cut off his penis
A 19-year-old Florida man, who said he had taken psychedelic drugs, was arrested after telling police that he was God and then allegedly assaulting an officer. Police in Gainesville were called to Campus Club Apartments at around 1 a.m. on Saturday by residents who said they witnessed Michael...
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At least 15 trapped as India hospital roof collapses
Up to 15 people, mostly patients, were feared trapped after part of a hospital roof caved in on Friday in the central Indian city of Bhopal, officials and eyewitnesses said. Rescuers moved in heavy machinery to cut through the crashed roof of the female surgical ward of Kasturba Hospital, hospital...
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Senate passes emergency relief to avert air travel budget cuts
Senate rushes through legislation to end delays and cancellations, with House expected to approve bill on Friday Congressional leaders have predicted they will have a deal in place by Friday to exempt air traffic controllers from sequester cuts that are causing thousands of plane delays across the...
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Christian man insists terminally-ill atheist ‘sinner’ will ‘go to hell’ for assisted suicide
An atheist woman with an incurable brain disease took her own life on Thursday in spite of Christians who insisted that she was a “sinner” and would “go to hell” if she went through with the assisted suicide. The Winnipeg Free Press‘ Lindor Reynolds reported that...
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Brazilian dentist burned to death in her home by robbers who stole $15
A dentist died in her suburban Sao Paulo office after three robbers set her alight with alcohol because they could steal only $15 from her, a police spokesman said Friday. The spokesman told AFP that three assailants burst into the office of 46-year-old Cinthya Magaly Moutinho de Souza Thursday and...
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Late German ‘Derrick’ actor revealed to be one of Hitler’s Warren SS officers
The late German actor who starred in the wildly popular television crime show “Derrick” was a member of Hitler’s notorious Waffen SS, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Friday. Horst Tappert, who played the beloved baggy-eyed detective from 1974 to 1998 in a...
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Ukrainians mark anniversary of Chernobyl disaster
Ukrainians on Friday lit candles and laid flowers to remember the victims of the world’s worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 27 years ago, as engineers pressed on with efforts to construct a new shelter to permanently secure the stricken reactor. On April 26, 1986, an explosion during testing...
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