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It looks like something out a superhero movie, but it’s for real.

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Just about everyone has dreamt about quitting a job in a grand fashion. Not only was Chris Holmes able to pull off a splashy exit from his nine-to-five as a border control agent at London's Stansted Airport, but he was able to do so in a way that should drum up some business for his new endeavor.

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Funeral services for Baroness Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, are underway at this hour.

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Psy's Gentleman M/V is the much-anticipated (well, maybe not really) sequel to Psy's original "Gangnam Style."

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In a story that seems copied directly from the pages of a comic book, a French super criminal escaped from jail on Saturday by using arms and explosives to blast his way out of incarceration. Infamous criminal Redoine Faid escaped from Lille-Sequedin penitentiary northern France by holding four

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UK still dominated by Thatcher's economic legacy (via AFP)

Margaret Thatcher's free-market reforms were controversial, but they fundamentally changed the British economy and still provide a yardstick against which her successors are judged. During the 1980s, her Conservative government deregulated the financial markets, broke the power of the trade unions,…

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Think you’ve got a rough commute?

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Whoever pays for this egg is going to shell out a lot of money.

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Italy's top appeal court Tuesday overturned the acquittal of American Amanda Knox for the murder British student Meredith Kercher.

Kercher died at 21 years old in an apartment she shared with Knox in Italy in 2007.

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If you’re looking for a little international adventure, there’s one place you may be surprised to learn will welcome you with open arms.

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