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27 Nov 2009 16:56

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World: A train traveling between Russia’s two biggest cities derails

  • 10+ people died in the express train derailment on Friday evening
  • 130+ were injured by the train, which travels between Moscow and St. Petersberg source
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27 Nov 2009 16:12

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Politics: Is the Tiger Woods story an example of Twitter’s real-time superiority?

  • That apparently took 45 minutes to get up. They could have called anyone on Twitter 30 minutes ago to get those details from what officials were saying based on what they had already read thanks to Twitter and Google.
  • TechCrunch columnist MG Siegler • Commenting on the breaking nature of the Tiger Woods crash. @BreakingNews had it 45 minutes before any mainstream news source. When CNN had it, they had zero information. This is because they needed to source it, whereas @BreakingNews didn’t. Another interesting note from the story – BNO News, which currently runs @BreakingNews, will let MSNBC run the feed starting next month. Expect it to start sucking at that point. source
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22 Nov 2009 09:05

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World: Nearly everyone escapes a sinking ferry in Indonesia – nearly.

  • 9+ died in the disaster, off the island of Sumatra
  • 209+ were rescued before it was too late; the ship held 220 source
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20 Nov 2009 12:12

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Culture: Word of a Miley Cyrus scare has Twitter a little jostled

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20 Nov 2009 12:10

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Culture, U.S.: Teen pop shock: Miley Cyrus’ tour bus crashed in Virginia

  • one person – the driver – died after the tour bus crashed source
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19 Nov 2009 10:56

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World: In Congo, their planes crash into lava for some reason

  • 10 injured after a plane ran into freaking LAVA source
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17 Nov 2009 21:23

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U.S.: Some car kinda sorta connected to Joe Biden crashed or something

This police car with Joe Biden’s motorcade crashed. The vice president was on his way to “The Daily Show” to chat up Jon Stewart. Clearly, this is a sign. source
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16 Nov 2009 11:18

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Offbeat: Bugatti Veyrons, pelicans and water don’t mix very well

  • Well, that’s bound to knock down its value a couple of notches. This Bugatti Veyron, a million-dollar car that’s one of the fastest in the world, recently met a watery fate thanks to a stray pelican. There are other videos with more to them than this, but this is pretty much all you need to know about this crash.source
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11 Nov 2009 10:01

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U.S.: 9/11 rescue workers are starting to get cancer, big time

  • 70,000 workers helped clean up the massively sad mess at Ground Zero after 9/11 happened source
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16 Oct 2009 12:45

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World: Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai boycotts the “unity” government

  • He claims that Robert Mugabe’s party hasn’t budged. Morgan Tsvangirai has been through the wringer trying to improve Zimbabwe and its laughable economy. He’s been beaten before. His wife died in a car crash. But after the arrest of Tsvangirai’s nominated government appointee Roy Bennett on terrorism charges, he’s had enough for now. Tsvangirai and his MDC party have “disengaged” from the unity government with Robert Mugabe. This comes at a bad time for Zimbabwe, which is trying to raise aid money to improve the country’s fragile economic state. source
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