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  • NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot

    The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...

  • Rick Perry takes aim at New York

    Rick Perry stars in an ad out Wednesday that coincides with his swing across the Northeast to lure jobs to Texas.The one-minute, campaign-style video - shared first with POLITICO - attacks New York, where the governor is spending the day, as a high-tax, high-regulation state. ...

  • K-9 cop is hurt on job

    Bear was treated at an animal-care facility and released later in the day. He’ll be back on the job today.The dog will have two teeth capped and is expected to return to full duty.Matos-Davis was charged with injuring a police animal, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.In 2011, Bear helped apprehend suspects in two other ...

  • Car mows down roadside dinosaurs on Long Island

    SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- A Long Island man denies a police claim that he was intoxicated when his car smashed into about a dozen roadside ...

  • NY Senate passes DeFrancisco bill barring state payments to tax-delinquent landlords

    The state Senate on Tuesday approved legislation sponsored by Sen. John DeFrancisco to prevent public welfare agencies from paying rent to tax-delinquent landlords. The Assembly is not expected to act on the legislation this ...


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The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) [Blu-Ray]

The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) [Blu-Ray]

The middle film in Pier Paolo Pasolinis controversial Trilogy of Life, The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) is also the darkest and least appealing of the three films, which is ironic given than Pasolini ends with himself playing Canterbury au ... ...

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  • UK Auditor Agrees Fine And Ban In New York

    A division of one of the UK's biggest auditors, Deloitte, has been fined $10m (6.4m) by New York state for its actions in advising Standard Chartered Bank over money laundering. In addition to the fine, Deloitte's Financial Advisory Services arm was also banned for one year from taking new work in the state after officials ruled it did not carry out its duties independently. The ...

  • FBI hunt for Jimmy Hoffa remains entering 3rd day

    OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- FBI agents plan a third day of digging Wednesday in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ...

  • Most of NY canal system reopening as water levels ease

    Provided photo. ALBANY, N.Y. -- Most of New York state's canal system shut down by high water from recent heavy rains will soon be open. The state Canal Corp. says all of the Erie Canal will be open as of 8 a.m. Wednesday, except for the stretch from Lock E-8 in Scotia to Lock E-15 in Fort Plain. Parts of the Oswego and Cayuga-Seneca canals that remained closed Tuesday will reopen around ...

  • Brazil braces for more anti-government protests

    Brazil braced for a new round of anti-government protests Wednesday after a violent night of looting and vandalism in Sao Paulo that led to at least 30 arrests. An estimated 50,000 people flooded the city's central Cathedral Square for the second night running, marching through streets and waving banners carrying slogans such as, "The people have awakened." One group tried to ...

  • Arrest in cab umbrella slay

    The man who police say fatally stabbed a livery cab driver in the eye with an umbrella was busted in Brooklyn yesterday.Shamel Allen, 28, was nabbed at 11:30 a.m. and charged with manslaughter in last Thursday’s slaying, police said.Orji-Ama Uro was driving Allen in the vicinity of Lott Avenue and Thomas Boyland Street in Brownsville when Allen plunged the tip of the umbrella into ...

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