LONDON – Britain has honored Australian singer Kylie Minogue for her services to music. The 40-year-old pop star received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, from Prince Charles during a ceremony Thursday at Buckingham Palace in London. She was lauded for a career that spans …
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If you think orgasm is the pinnacle of sex, think again. Some people actually supersede the state of climax and reach a state of transcendent sex. Such lovemaking is said to involve a divine force, and is regarded as a path to a higher consciousness. It has been known to …
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French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy denies she has had 30 lovers, despite shocking fans by referring to them in her recently released album. The 40-year-old ex-model insists the controversial lyrics “my 30 lovers” were a result of “poetic license.” “It’s not that I had a lot of lovers. It’s that …
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LA PAZ, Bolivia – A small bus carrying eight foreign tourists flipped over while traveling over Bolivia’s famous salt flats, killing the driver and three of the passengers, police said Monday. The accident happened on Sunday at the Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flats. It was the second …
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NAIROBI, Kenya – The U.N. has condemned the slaying of a senior staff member in Somalia but says there are no plans to halt operations. Officials say unidentified gunmen shot Osman Ali Ahmed as he was leaving a mosque in Mogadishu on Sunday night. Ahmed — who was head of …
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MANASSAS, Va. – The former mayor of the town of Dumfries has plaeded no contest to running a brothel out of a sports therapy clinic he owns in a Prince William County strip mall. Melvin Bray was the small town’s first black mayor, serving from 2002 to 2006. He was …
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SAN FRANCISCO – MC Hammer hasn’t topped the music charts since the early 1990s, but the former rap star says he has another hit in him — only this time around he’ll produce it as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Burrell, is choreographing a new …
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ELIZABETH, N.J. – The first of two inmates who staged a daring escape from a New Jersey jail was found in a basement apartment a mile away, but the second made it further, authorities say: He was found at a “$10-a-night hotel” in Mexico City. Otis Blunt, awaiting trial for …
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JACKSONVILLE, N.C. – Police confirmed Tuesday a truck found at a hotel parking lot belongs to a Marine on the run who is accused of murdering a 20-year-old Marine and her unborn child. The manhunt for Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean, the suspect in Lauterbach’s murder, stretched into its fourth day …
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WASHINGTON – A Defense Department review of the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has found the doctors overseeing Maj. Nidal Hasan’s medical training repeatedly voiced concerns over his strident views on Islam and his inappropriate behavior, yet continued to give him positive performance evaluations that kept him moving through …
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